organ

Drawing attention to horrific human rights abuses in Communist China: A public film screening in Delaware raised awareness about forced organ harvesting. Doctors and students who saw the documentary said they were shocked to learn about this crime.

U.S. House passed a bill to punish the Chinese Communist Party on March 27 for its forced live organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. The bill, dubbed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, aims to sanction anyone involved in the horrific act and requires annual government reporting on such activities taking place in […]

LONDON—A senior Nigerian politician and his wife were found guilty Thursday of conspiring to transport a street trader to the UK as part of an organ-harvesting plot. Ike Ekweremadu, who was deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and a lawyer, and his wife, Beatrice, were accused of arranging the travel of a 21-year-old man to […]

LONDON— A senior Nigerian politician was on trial in London on Tuesday for allegedly exploiting a street trader by transporting him to the U.K. to donate a kidney in exchange for thousands of pounds. Ike Ekweremadu, who was deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and a lawyer, was on trial along with his wife, Beatrice […]

It’s not uncommon to see someone breaking down in tears in hospitals. So when Guo Zhigong, who was being treated for aplastic anemia, tried to help a fellow patient who was crying, he didn’t expect to hear a story about China’s opaque organ transplant business. The patient, in his 40s, was worried about a kidney […]

New evidence has emerged pointing to the Chinese regime’s ongoing organ harvesting crimes, Ethan Gutmann, China studies research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 in Washington on June 28-30. Gutmann reported his latest finding: a compound containing a hospital surrounded with a labor camp of 33,000 […]

WASHINGTON—With rising awareness of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harvesting organs of prisoners of conscience, ending Western complicity would come next, said Dr. Jessica Russo, a board member of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), a medical professional advocacy group, and a clinical psychologist based in Philadelphia. By “Western complicity,” she is referring to international […]

The University of Pittsburgh reached out to top National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials to help it respond to criticism of experiments using fetal organs, according to newly released emails. Calls for a probe were triggered after documents showed the government, including the NIH, awarded millions to the school for a program that used aborted baby […]

The association head for Los Angeles deputy district attorneys says they are recalling the district attorney because of his failed policies and a rise in crime. He said this is the first time the association has tried to recall a DA. Los Angeles’s city controller warned of the slow progress on a proposition to house […]

A famous organ is back home—after nearly 10 years of repairs. The instrument is one of the largest in the world. And it has finally returned to a cathedral in Orange County, California.

They were in robust health when they were put on the operating table for doctors to carve out their organs. Many of them were still breathing. When the job was done, the bodies were tossed into the incinerator and burned, leaving no trace behind. The spine-chilling scene had been a lived reality for prisoners of […]

Some members of the European Parliament are demanding action to combat organ harvesting after experts gave evidence at a Nov. 29 subcommittee hearing confirming that the communist Chinese regime has been harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience on a large-scale. “We came to the conclusion beyond reasonable doubt that forced organ harvesting was proved,” Sir […]

U.S.-based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and four other NGOs are calling on governments and the public to support a new initiative to end China’s state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting. Together the groups launched a declaration (pdf) entitled the “Universal Declaration on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting” on Sept. 26, […]

U.S.-based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) is calling on the United Nations to take action against China’s state-sanctioned practice of killing prisoners of conscience to supply organs for its lucrative transplant market. “The failure of the United Nations to address and thoroughly investigate the forced organ harvesting from living people in China […]

Several politicians from around the world on Sept. 19 took turns in a summit to condemn China’s continued practice of killing prisoners of conscience in order to drive its industrial-scale operations to supply harvested organs to the transplant market. “Organ donation is a precious act of saving a life, but forced organ harvesting is commercialized […]

Next year, it might be illegal for Canadians to go to China for organ transplants if the organs were forcibly harvested. Canadian Member of Parliament Garnett Genuis aims to pass legislation that makes it a criminal offense for Canadians to get organs abroad without the consent of the organ donor.

A bill preventing UK citizens from receiving an organ transplant abroad without proper consent from the donor has passed its second reading on Friday.