When she reached out to touch him, “his body … was still warm on his (lips) and chest”, she said. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! The man’s elderly parents live in the Pichan region in China, and he was arrested by several secret police officers while visiting them. Hollie McKay has a been a Fox News Digital staff reporter since 2007. It was a trip he had made several times before without incident, he said. “Twelve days later, my (cellmate) died as a result of forced feeding,” Zeng told Fox News. In 2018, however, the China Organ Harvest Research Center based in New York published a detailed report showing that China has been lying. “We fear that today, the Chinese Communist Party may be harvesting the organs of not just Falun Gong practitioners, but also Uighurs, Tibetan Buddhists, Chinese Christians and other prisoners of conscience.”. Most affected is a spiritual minority, the Falun Gong, who have been persecuted for adhering to a Buddhist-centric religious philosophy grounded in meditation and compassion. “No one has the right to reject any orders,” he said. 4. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @holliesmckay, China's state-sanctioned organ harvesting victims speak out. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. “Also during lessons, they inform you of cases that have taken place … and sentences that have been given and what for,” he said. My older sister prepared to perform CPR,” Li continued. Several distinct strands of evidence have been presented to support allegations that Falun Gong practitioners have been killed for their organs in China. Between day and evening classes is two hours of military training, including marching and standing to attention. Last month, the independent and international China Tribunal, chaired in London by the esteemed Sir Geoffrey Nice, concluded a state-sponsored human farming operation was taking place across the country. China says some 60,000 organ transplants take place annually, and donations are from a voluntary system, but the tribunal heard it’s impossible that such a system could meet that quota. In June, I reported on the China Tribunal in London, which found evidence of "forced organ harvesting" from Chinese prisoners, … Survivors routinely point to the frequent physical screenings, ultrasounds, and X-rays as further corroboration that victims are being monitored to determine whose organs are healthy enough for transplantation purposes, as most are pushed to the brink in allegedly tortuous interrogation sessions. Thousands also enter “re-education schools” never to be seen again. Moreover, the China Organ Harvest Research Center (COHRC), which also testified before the China Tribunal, published its own incriminating report in July after years of underground research and analysis, deducing that the “on-demand killing of prisoners of conscience is driven by the state, run on an industrial scale and carried out by both military and civilian institutions.”, Falun Gong advocates demonstrate across from the U.N. in September It has also denied forcible organ harvesting, although the China Tribunal pointed out its story has changed repeatedly over the past several years. A protester dressed as a Chinese doctor simulates removing organs from another dressed as a Falun Gong practitioner at a Falun Gong protest in Berlin, Germany. 4. It marked the first explicit charge from a prominent U.S political party on the matter. Watchtowers on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp on the outskirts of Hotan in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. According to witness, live organs are harvested from detained Uyghur Muslims and sold for over $160,000. “Everyone must sing one of these red songs,” the man said. He was alive. He was only released after political pressure from the Kazakh government. After 10 hours of demanding to see his body, she was taken to a morgue. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. Some 1.5 million people are kept in a huge network of prisons across China. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2021. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. During a Falun Gong rally in Taiwan in 2006, four demonstrators play in an action drama against what they said was the … In all, Sir Geoffrey concluded China’s transplant trade was worth $1 billion to its national economy. In 2015 China announced that it was abolishing its practice of extracting organs from executed criminals and switching to a fully voluntary organ donor system. The real concentration camps are in China — but US leaders are silent. And now, an international tribunal has found that prisoners of those camps are being used to supply the $1billion organ trade in China. Images from Chinese state TV show life inside the "schools" But a euphemism for the camps has long existed - education. or redistributed. “The scale of the Chinese transplant industry, together with other evidence, points to the possibility that China is involved in forced organ harvesting and selling for profit organs from prisoners of conscience.”, The Tribunal affirmed that it “has had no evidence that the significant infrastructure associated with China’s transplantation industry has been dismantled and absent a satisfactory explanation as to the source of readily available organs concludes that forced organ harvesting continues till today.”, Grace Yin, a leading researcher at the COHRC, also asserted that by admitting to less severe abuse and proclaiming it was only happening to those awaiting capital punishment, the government was purporting to “divert attention away from the more severe issue.”. NurPhoto via … In fact, they have been for 20 years. Seminar about the concentration camps in Xinjiang, China where over one million are held. On his first day in detention, he was forced to give urine and blood samples before being subjected to ultrasounds of his kidneys, heart and lungs. (Image: pixabay / CC0 1.0) A hospital in Aksu in the Xinjiang region that was previously dedicated to fighting infectious diseases has apparently been turned into an internment camp. One man held in a sprawling prison camp, a citizen of Kazakhstan, was arrested in March 2017 and held until November, with police claiming he was involved in spreading Uyghur extremism and supporting terrorism. An AFP video journalist being escorted away from filming buildings at the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training camp, seen in the distance. They read out the regulations – we could see the body for only five minutes, no cameras or communication devices, and we could only go to the freezer room to see Jiang’s head and not his whole body.”, Jiang Li also believes her father, Jiang Xiqing – also of the Falun Gong faith – was a victim to the harrowing practice. And many assert the practice is still happening. (Adam Shaw/ Fox News). The “collapse of Western values,” a “massive case of denial” in the free world, and “religious bigotry” towards the Falun Gong spiritual movement have allowed China to potentially expand its industrial-scale harvesting of live organs to Uighur Muslims imprisoned in concentration camps, Ethan Gutmann, author of several seminal reports on the topic, told Breitbart News. Organs from Chinese prisoners harvested: Insider account. But when her older sister touched his face, she screamed that his philtrum was still warm, and his upper teeth were biting his lower lip. The man said he refused, leading to his eyebrows, eyelashes and facial hair being plucked out. The family of one Falun Gong companion, Gao Yixi, recalled seeing “his eyes opened wide, his stomach deflated and no organs inside.”. Witness testimonies provided to the tribunal, and interviewed by Fox News, paint the picture of an unfathomably callous trade often performed when the victims are still alive. To the increasing reports of mass-sterilisation, forced-organ harvesting and expanding concentration camps, Mr Raab and Mr Johnson have succeeded in … “I feel dead is better, but our (Falun Gong) master taught us that we can’t kill others or commit suicide.”. The China Tribunal heard most inmates were tested to check the viability of their organs, which are involuntarily harvested to satisfy the huge demand of the transplant trade. The day did not end until midnight, he said. We touched his chest, and it was warm. Market data provided by Factset. It first denied using deceased prisoners for organ “donations”, then said it only used death-row inmates who had died. According to the COHRC, there are mountains of money to be made. “It is just so bizarre it was hard to believe. There was a trace of stitches starting from the throat down to where his clothes covered,” Yu recalled. (Courtesy Yu Ming ). The Chinese authorities have long denied the existence of concentration camps, but in October 2018 officially recognized them, calling them re-education camps. Yu Ming, 47, another member of Falun Gong and newly arrived in the United States, claimed that he was “kidnapped” multiple times by law enforcement, the most recent time in August 2013, and locked up in the Shenyang Detention Center where he was allegedly beaten into oblivion. “I feel that I have betrayed my belief, sold my soul and conscience in order not to be persecuted and live like a walking dead,” he said. Representatives for the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment, but the government has previously denied any accusations of illicit organ harvesting or mistreatment of prisoners. Upon demand the victim will then have surgery to remove their organ, or be killed and their vital organs extracted. Legal Statement. “Forced organ harvesting has been committed for years, and Falun Gong practitioners have been one – and probably the main – source of organ supply,” the report concluded, pointing to the growing transplant industry already worth more than $1 billion. It was initially characterized as targeting the forcible removing of organs of prisoners on death row. 34. Earlier this year, Steel introduced a resolution to the RNC condemning Beijing’s practice of involuntary organ harvesting from inmates, which was unanimously adopted at the quarterly conference in August. “In recent months, however, as the crisis in Xinjiang gathered steam, new reports have emerged that Uighurs may be having their organs harvested,” she observed. Photo: Josh Chin, A re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, north of Akto in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Desperate patients might make a high-price “donation” for a new organ at top-speed. Orang transplantation in China has been condemned as a criminal practice  They are not only forced to carry out various activities in concentration camps, but also used as organ donors for subsequent sale. The family has since attempted to seek some sense of justice – their lawyers ended up behind bars, and their family home was raided. “There are armed police, some of which carry wooden batons … if you show any signs of disobedience, they will come immediately and give you a severe beating.”, RELATED: Chinese official’s bizarre interview about ‘brainwashing’ camps in Xinjiang province, Some inmates share rooms where it’s 10 people to a dormitory. Once he was stripped and a guard ordered other inmates to “force a toilet brush handle into my anus”. But some political leaders are pushing for the U.S. to take a stronger stance in investigating the horrific allegation. Salih Hudayar, ambassador to the U.S. for the East Turkistan Government in Exile and a leader in the beleaguered Uighur community, told Fox News that the Chinese government claims that “written consent is required for all organ transplants,” but in reality it is hardly likely there was any such consent, and if there was it would have been “extracted through torture.”, Salih Hudayar – political affairs officer for the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a Washington-based human rights groups devoted to the independence of the region – argued many countries are staying silent over fears of jeopardizing investments. ©2021 FOX News Network, LLC. She has extensively reported from war zones including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, and Latin America investigates global conflicts, war crimes and terrorism around the world. Having hepatitis C may very well have saved Jennifer Zeng’s life. There, a gurney was slid from a freezer to show her father’s heavily bruised body. “They claim through re-education they can liberate people’s minds to embrace the Party and love the country, to obey all the Party rules and regulations,” the man said. A hospital in Xinjiang might be in use for organ harvesting. … On the afternoon of January 27, 2009, she and three other family members went to visit him. As for claims, China is removing live organs from executed Uyghur Muslims and marketing them as “halal” and then distributing via a network to wealthy Saudi clients, we know that China has taken the biometric data of the upwards of 2 million Uyghur it holds in its concentration camps, along with those of millions of others in Xinjiang, and we also know that as many as 100,000 organ transplants are carried out each year in China… There have also been suggestions China is selling excess organs on the black market. The report underscored that there were “extraordinarily short waiting times for organs to be available for transplantation,” and numerous websites advertised hearts, lungs, and kidneys for sale – suggesting an on-demand industry. The tribunal judgement has far-reaching implications for countries that share information, research and trade with China – … Rumours of forced organ removal were rife in the prison, and he feared he would be killed for his. It began with being allowed just two to three hours of sleep each day, which he said was then reduced to one hour and then to no sleep. (China Tribunal). She told the tribunal her father, “still with obvious signs of life at the time, was pushed back into the freezer”. Researchers, human rights advocates and medical advocacy groups have focused in particular on the volume of organ transplants performed in China; the disparity between the number of transplants and known sources of organs; the significant growth in the transplant industry coinciding with the mass imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioners; short wait time… He was arrested on May 2008 and sent to a forced labor camp. Chinese leaders have categorically denied misconduct, insisting that Uighurs are in “re-education camps” and doubled-down that the government respects religious rights. “The root issue still goes back to the Communist Party’s persecution of faith groups and its animosity toward groups that it perceives as threats to its ideological control,” she said. In May 2004 – three months after her father disappeared into a detention center – Han Yu received a call that her father, a Falun Gong practitioner, was dead. The man was held from late 2006 until early 2009, during which time he was shuffled from a prison to a labour camp and then finally to a re-education school. These witness statements echo dozens of others received by the tribunal telling of brutal prison conditions and hard labour, followed by long periods of re-education. AFP via Getty Images. China's ‘XXX Files’: ‘25 Thousand People Disappear Each Year, Their Organs Are Harvested’. Picture: AFPSource:AFP. It happened, and it is happening.”. Zeng’s blood was drawn and she told them she had hepatitis C before she took up the spiritual practice. It has acknowledged using executed prisoners' organs in the past but says it stopped in 2015, according to Reuters. Why China fears the Falun Gong. All times AEST (GMT +10). “Every year during my detention, the authorities would force us to have blood taken and X-rays but never notified me of any result,” the man told the tribunal. Such is the insatiable demand for organs, some removals occur while prisoners are still alive, the tribunal heard. “The guards let prisoners torture me a lot of times,” he said. Authorities wanted the man to sign three statements — types of pledges to denounce his Falun Gong faith, to plead guilty to crimes and to state he had not been coerced. “China later claimed that death row prisoners consented to donate their organs to the State to redeem themselves for the crimes they had committed against the State, a practice China claimed to have stopped in January 2015. Other prisoners were bribed by guards to torture him with beatings and humiliation, including forcing the man to eat his own faeces. US SPEAKS UP FOR MINORITY MUSLIM UIGHURS IN CHINA - WHILE ISLAMIC COUNTRIES STAY MOSTLY SILENT. The tribunal heard testimony from more than 50 people — many of them former inmates at camps, which hold an estimated 1.5 million people. Market data provided by Factset. RELATED: Extreme torture — inside China’s correctional facilities, A police checkpoint on a road near a facility believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained. However, a map released by the tribunal shows hospitals in China that carry out organ transplants, which are in proximity to known detention centres. ... Falun Gong have reportedly been kept in concentration camps until an order comes in for an organ that matches their tissue type. As time when on, his friends disappeared. And it has been buried from public view, hard to prove, and shrouded beneath the cloak of silence for almost two decades. The practice is alleged to have started in the 90s on a small-scale, but kicked into high gear around 2000 and focused on the Falun Gong. “Seven of my family members arrived at the mortuary house at 10.30 p.m. with the guidance of police officers. Footage pertaining to alleged illegal organ harvesting in China Inmates who don’t speak Chinese are taught Mandarin. All rights reserved. Dated: June 16, 2019 by Sharyl Attkisson 26 Comments. To join the conversation, please Log in. In 2019, HEQ was contacted by representatives for survivors of the persecution, torture and forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China, hoping to raise awareness of their situation. China experts and activists claim that the repression of minorities in Xinjiang has escalated in recent years, with thousands of Uighur Muslims in ‘reeducation camps’ being murdered and their organs harvested for wealthy Chinese and foreign patients. But a report released last month found China has built almost 400 new camps since 2017, while new testimonies have emerged alleging slave labour, forced sterilisations and organ harvesting taking place inside the camps too. “We asked for emergency rescue and were declined brutally … (we) shouted for help and called 110 (emergency services) but were dragged away from the spot by the man law-enforcement officers.”, This map identifies known prison camps across China.Source:Supplied, This map reveals the location of organ transplant hospitals and 'research' facilities.Source:Supplied. China says it stopped harvesting the organs of executed prisoners about five years ago, and the government says the allegations are being used for … The tribunal heard from another man who was arrested at university after police found Falun Gong material on his computer. People protest the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighurs in Xinjiang Province. The tribunal heard from a former doctor who was ordered to work in a transplant hospital, where donors were almost exclusively deceased prison inmates. They are described as schools where people suspected of being extremists are taught Chinese culture and values in a bid to re-educate them and keep society safe. ©2021 FOX News Network, LLC. “Their goal is just to exterminate all Uighurs in one way or another”, says Ӧmir. “There were times that they denied me rest-room use, forcing me to urinate and defecate in my pants,” he said. Later another family member went in and continued to unbutton and found stitches that went all the way to the stomach.”. A horrifying practice is happening in China: dissidents in prison are being killed for their organs. It provides irrefutable evidence China has established a “complete industry chain” for harvesting organs of political prisoners, observing that minorities have been specifically targeted, including Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans, House Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners. Later, he underwent an eye test. She suspects her father was a victim of organ harvesting. Copies of statements, viewed by news.com.au, describe barbaric physical and mental torture at the hands of both guards and willing inmates in a bid to force confessions and break people’s spirit before re-education training. RELATED: United Nations fears more than one million could be detained in China in ‘secret internment camps’, A Chinese visitor proudly holds up a Communist revolutionary 'Red Book' containing the teachings of Mao Zedong, as he poses near a Cultural Revolution rehabilitation camp in Yinchuan, in northwest China's Ningxia region.Source:AFP. Organ Harvesting in China. Picture: AFPSource:AFP. China has denied large-scale harvesting of organs. In 2010, Li said she was terminated from her job without explanation and detained. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. It’s the stuff of nightmares. China has consistently denied accusations of human rights abuses in its prison camps, which it describes as “voluntary” re-education schools. Their misdeeds include belonging to the Muslim ethnic group Uyghur or practising the outlawed religion Falun Gong. “Also, before starting to eat, we must say: ‘Thanks to the party, thanks to the country, thanks to President Xi, I wish him good health, I wish President Xi live long and stay young’.”, Foreigners in the camps are treated to elaborate dance routines put on by those living there. “But were each forcibly dragged out of the freezer by four people. “We were not even allowed to cry when he was buried,” Hu continued, reflecting on the throngs of authorities that trailed their every move and prohibited any photographs from being taken. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. An interview conducted by the independent journalist CJ Werlemen with a Uyghur Muslim surgeon has alleged that China has been harvesting live organs from executed Uyghur prisoners being held in concentration camps in Xinjiang province. China said recently that it has reduced the numbers in the camps, although doubts persist about the claim. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. But it wasn’t until almost a month later that the family was allowed to view the body at Liangxiang District Xiao Zhuang village morgue, with dozens of authorities surveilling their every move. Four Uighurs testified before the China Tribunal that they had been organ scanned whilst in detention. The man was routinely deprived of food for long periods before being force-fed by tubes, which were pulled out and reinserted several times. The tribunal’s findings concluded that the main source of China’s forced organ harvesting came from hundreds of thousands of people from different ethnic and religious minorities, some of them from the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority whose detainment in concentration camps for “reeducation” by the government has been widely reported in the past year. While people are not allowed to leave and classes are mandatory, it insists attendees want to be there to become better Chinese citizens. “Medical tourism is big business; if you are wealthy, you can get the organ you need in a couple of weeks. In late 2007, the man said he broke and agreed to sign the three statements despite it being “in violation of my heart”. Activists push for investigation over claims China is forcibly harvesting organs of Uighur population Human rights activists are collecting evidence that people are killed for their organs “We pulled out my father’s body halfway. There is a flag-raising ceremony followed by a meagre breakfast and songs of praise, which include lyrics like “Where there is no Communist Party, there is no new China” and “Socialism is good”. They make their beds to military precision or face punishment. “I was forced to wear those pants, even during meals.”, RELATED: China’s religious detention camps revealed, As many as 1.5 million ethnic Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang, along with practitioners of Falun Gong. Data from 2007 shows that hospitals charged more than $65,000 for a kidney transplant, $130,000 for liver, and more than $150,000 for lung or heart. China boasts that it sustains the largest voluntary organ donation system in Asia, but experts contend that the country does not have a history of willful organ donation and the official figures – 10,000 transplants each year – “understates the real volume,” which researchers pledge is likely upward of 60,000-100,000 annually. “Having hepatitis C might have unqualified me as an organ donor.”. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, The Tribunal concluded that the commission of Crimes Against Humanity against Falun Gong and Uighurs had been committed. (Steel (provided)). Source: BBCSource:Supplied. A photograph taken in 1999 when the Falun Gong crackdown began shows Chinese police arresting several women, suspected of being Falun Gong.Source:AFP. These tests were repeated later during his captivity. (Supplied Salih Hudayar), “Voice prints and retina scans were collected in 2016-2017 in East Turkistan, and some of us fear that they might be used for organ matching,” Hudayar continued. But on one occasion, he said a man bled profusely when he cut into the skin, indicating he was still alive but sedated. Barbaric torture, brainwashing and forced organ removals: Inside China’s brutal death camps. A speaker protesting against the persecution of Falun Gong, a Buddhist sect China has deemed harmful. They demanded that we quickly sign for cremation and pay the fees.”. “Forced organ harvesting is of unmatched wickedness, on a death-for-death basis, with the killings (from) mass crimes committed in the last century,” he said. A Wall Street Journal investigation reveals what goes on inside China's growing network of internment camps, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs are believed to have been detained. Waiting lists for organs are virtually non-existent, with the privileged, powerful and wealthy whisked in and out. The Kazakh man told the tribunal re-education camp inmates were woken at 6am. Picture: AFPSource:AFP, On one occasion, he was subjected to a sleep deprivation regimen. Some 1.5 million people are kept in a huge network of prisons across China. “I saw obvious injuries on his face, even after the makeup, the severe bruise below his left eye stood out. Then at 3.40 p.m. the next day, the labor camp called my brother and said he had died and immediately hung up,” she said. Thousands are being sacrificed every year, and it is not being discussed.”, Shawn Steel, California’s Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman That (governments) can defile a human being like that,” Shawn Steel, California’s Republican National (RNC) Committeeman, told Fox News. Legal Statement. The tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC who led the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic in the International Criminal Trial for the former Yugoslavia, stated with “certainty” that “in China, forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practiced for a substantial period of time.”. Sign up, Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. He was wearing a down jacket. Picture: AFPSource:AFP. A woman whose father died in a prison camp said she was notified on January 28, 2009 that he had died of natural causes. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. All rights reserved. “His mental and physical health was normal. Detention in re-education camps occurs after long stints in prison, with forced labour and repeated medical tests that human rights advocates say is part of China’s forced organ trade. The practice, which China continues to deny, constituted genocide and industrial-scale murder and torture, Sir Geoffrey said. Picture: Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images. Other classes include Communist Party laws and regulations, songs and dances and anti-Falun Gong and anti-Uyghur instruction. 3. Jiang Li also believes her father, Jiang Xiqing – also of the Falun Gong faith –  was a victim to the harrowing practice. The majority of those held have not been convicted of a crime. However, the explosion of organ transplant activities in China from 2000, together with reports of thousands of transplant tourists going to China to purchase organs, suggests a larger supply of organs than could be sourced from executed criminals alone,” the Tribunal states.
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