Tribunal Investigates Allegations of Forced Organ Harvesting in China

LONDON—An independent peoples’ tribunal is examining evidence claiming to show that the Chinese state is targeting innocent prisoners of conscience and forcibly carving out their internal organs for transplants and profit. Three days of public hearings began on Dec. 8 in the heart of London’s legal district, in which witnesses from across the globe gave their testimonies on the disturbing practice of forced organ harvesting. Chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, the people’s tribunal will, in his words, be looking at the evidence of forced organ harvesting in China afresh—with no assumptions. Further hearings are scheduled to take place early next year, followed by a report of the findings.

Emotional and Painful The atmosphere during the Dec. 8 hearing in Holborn was serious, and for some, emotional, and painful. Among the witnesses who testified to Sir Geoffrey and a panel of six experts, were three Chinese refugees who said they fled from persecution in China. All refugees spoke separately of being detained in China for their faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been brutally suppressed in China for over 19 years. Torture methods described by the refugees included electrocution, sexual harassment, forced feeding, and starvation.

But they all spoke of having physical examinations, too. Feng Hollis, who was arrested in 2005, said that at the time she wondered why she was given a medical test after being tortured in prison. In a press briefing before the hearings, Susie Hughes, executive director of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), said an increase in transplant activity in China coincided with the repression of Falun Gong. “During the 2000s, analysis of various sources of emerging evidence led to the conclusion that people who practiced Falun Gong were being killed to provide the organs fuelling China’s transplant boom,” she said.

Research from human rights lawyer David Matas, a witness on Dec. 8, has found that the number of transplants from voluntary donors and death-row prisoners is far from the total number of transplants taking place in China.

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Bloody Harvest PDF report:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/tribunal-investigates-allegations-of-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china_2733823.html

Final Records Released by Police in Las Vegas Mass Shooting

LAS VEGAS—Police in Las Vegas said Jan. 3 they have finished releasing audio, video and written records about the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history 15 months ago during an open-air concert. The department said that after 34 releases of material since May, officials believe they have complied with a court order in a public records lawsuit about the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting. Plaintiffs included The Associated Press. “We don’t expect any further major releases of either video or documents,” the department said in a statement. “If documents are identified that have not previously been released, they will be made available.”

Fifty-eight people died, 869 were wounded or injured, and thousands were affected when a high-limit video poker player fired assault-style weapons equipped with rapid-fire devices from the Mandalay Bay resort into a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers across Las Vegas Boulevard. The material released until last week provided dramatic details about horror and heroism, but no insight about the motive of 64-year-old gunman Stephen Paddock. Authorities have said Paddock killed himself before police arrived. Investigators believe he acted alone with no broader conspiracy and no link to terrorism.

The records stemmed from video clips from nearly 1,200 officer body-worn cameras; more han 1,000 audio clips of 911 calls; about 2,100 pages of officer reports, witness statements and dispatch logs; and video from streetscape, rooftop, and helicopter vantage points. Transcribed statements from 18 of the hundreds of officers who responded to the shooting were made public last week. The material came with little department comment or explanation and no narrative thread.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo released an investigation summary and declared the police investigation ended in August, saying frenzied reports of other shootings on the night of the massacre turned out to be false. The FBI is expected to soon release a report including a behavioral analysis of Paddock.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/final-records-released-by-police-in-las-vegas-mass-shooting_2756498.html

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It indeed was,we still however should keep up with up dated narratives..you never know when they might be needed.

California to Remove Up to 1.5 Million Inactive Voters From Registration Rolls to Settle Lawsuit

The State of California and Los Angeles County agreed to remove up to 1.5 million inactive voters from voter rolls Dec. 3 in order to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a watchdog group. The settlement agreement (pdf), filed Dec. 3 with U.S. District Court Judge Manuel Real, requires the state and the county to notify all of the 1.5 million potentially ineligible voters and remove them from voter rolls if there is no response.

The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) requires states to remove inactive registrations from voter rolls after two general federal elections. Most inactive registrations belong to voters who have moved to another county or state or have passed away, according to Judicial Watch. As part of the settlement, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla agreed to update the state’s NVRA manuals and to notify election officials in each county that they are obligated to regularly clean up voter rolls.

The lawsuit revealed that Los Angeles has the highest number of inactive registrations of any county in the nation, with one in every five registrations being inactive. “This settlement vindicates Judicial Watch’s groundbreaking lawsuits to clean up state voter rolls to help ensure cleaner elections,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Judicial Watch and its clients are thrilled with this historic settlement that will clean up election rolls in Los Angeles County and California—and set a nationwide precedent to ensure that states take reasonable steps to ensure that dead and other ineligible voters are removed from the rolls.”

Judicial Watch settled similar statewide challenges in Ohio and Kentucky in 2014 and 2018 respectively. The watchdog also forced the state of Indiana to voluntarily clean up voter rolls and is engaged in an ongoing lawsuit with the State of Maryland.

Judicial Watch alleged in a 2017 lawsuit that Los Angeles County has a registration rate of 112 percent of its age-eligible citizens. The watchdog group alleged, using data published by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, that 11 of California’s 58 counties had registration rates exceeding 100 percent of age-eligible citizens. California, the most populous state in the union, has a registration rate of approximately 101 percent of age-eligible citizens, the lawsuit alleged. The California lawsuit revealed that Los Angeles County has not cleaned up its voter rolls for the past 20 years, despite a Supreme Court ruling (pdf) last year making such purges mandatory. With 10 million residents, Los Angeles County has a bigger population than 41 of 50 U.S. states.

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Settlement Agreement Here:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JW-v-Logan-California-NVRA-settlement-08948.pdf

Supreme Court Ruling

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/JW-v-Logan-California-NVRA-settlement-08948.pdf

Chinese Regime Establishes Supreme Court Body to Resolve Intellectual Property Disputes

New appeals court could address US concerns, but under China’s communist system, its effectiveness is doubtful. China’s Supreme People’s Court began operating an intellectual property (IP) division as of Jan. 1, the first time a judicial body has been set up expressly to handle IP disputes.

The move has been widely understood as a gesture by Beijing in signaling its willingness to cooperate with U.S. demands for an end to massive Chinese violations of IP theft. However, experts and observers doubt the new appeals court will be able to carry out its functions under the corruption-ridden communist regime. China’s official judicial news agency reported the day of the IP court’s opening that it was a “major decision and arrangement” by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities. Luo Dongchuan, vice president of the supreme court, was named chief judge of the division.

The supreme court described the IP division as an appeals court. Its main responsibility is to handle seven types of lawsuits—those concerning invention, design, and plant patents; integrated circuit layout design; technical secrets; computer software; and cases related to monopolies. The supreme court’s intellectual property division is the first established specifically to handle appeals. It was preceded by existing IP courts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, which were responsible for both courts of first instance and appeals.

The Trump administration has made IP theft a central issue in its ongoing trade row with communist China, which has seen high tariffs imposed on hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese exports to the United States. According to the U.S. government, IP violations—most of it as a result of Chinese action—cost American companies between $225 billion and $600 billion annually, while posing a national security threat. Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government-run broadcaster, reported Jan. 1 that “this move by the Chinese authorities is clearly related to the Sino–U.S. trade war.”

On Dec. 1, 2018, Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Argentina during the G-20 summit, where the two statesmen agreed on a 90-day “truce” to the trade war on condition that China worked toward meeting American demands. But while the establishment of the supreme court’s IP division is seen as a potential component of Xi’s attempt to keep his end of the bargain, many are skeptical of the court’s ability to enforce regulations: the Communist Party, as opposed to the Chinese state, wields actual power, and regularly flaunts the laws on the books.

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