Australian news reports on Chinese organ harvesting
China is forcibly harvesting the organs of tens of thousands of political prisoners to operate a rapidly growing medical black market worth $1 billion a year, an international tribunal has found.
For several years, human rights groups have expressed concern many of the estimated 1.5 million people held in prison camps were part of an insidious human farming system.
But now, the specially formed China Tribunal in London has declared there is no doubt that state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting is occurring on a massive scale.
Made up of members from the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia and Iran, including experts in human rights, transplant surgery and international relations, the independent tribunal heard from 50 witnesses and examined an enormous volume of visual and text evidence over the past year.
That included testimony about the barbaric practices, including organ removal on live patients.
Dr Enver Tohti worked as a surgeon in China and was instructed to perform organ extractions on unwilling subjects.
“What I recall is with my scalpel, I tried to cut into his skin, there was blood to be seen,” Dr Tohti told the tribunal of one such live procedure. “That indicates that the heart was still beating … at the same time, he was trying to resist my insertion, but he was too weak.”
A map of hospitals in China that carry out organ transplants shows they are in proximity to known detention centres.
https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/map-exposes-the-extent-of-chinas-human-farms-as-tribunal-slams-1b-forced-organ-harvesting-trade/news-story/ef34edd7ce9ba9ebe02ad24192494aa8