Organ trafficking: Ask UN experts for help
From Miriam Karmali, Freedom United
The Government of China faces damning allegations of orchestrating a grotesque system of forced organ harvesting and organ trafficking. Call on UN human rights experts to keep holding the Chinese government accountable!
Instead of meaningfully engaging with concerns raised by 12 UN human rights experts[1] who issued a joint correspondence to China regarding credible evidence that organ harvesting is taking place, the Chinese government issued a completely inadequate response that fails to measure up to acceptable standard.
With our partners, we’ll be sending a letter to UN human rights experts soon asking them to let the Chinese government know they will be held accountable for horrific allegations of forced organ harvesting and organ trafficking.
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Forced organ harvesting and organ trafficking are brutal crimes.Victims have their organs removed, through coercion or force, which are then sold in the illegal organ trade to unsuspecting buyers, desperate for a transplant.
Serious allegations of state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting have been made against China’s government as far back as 2006, leading UN human rights experts to raise the issue with authorities last year.
In China, minorities rounded up by government crackdowns –political prisoners, ethnic Uyghurs, and Falun Gong (Buddhist Qigong) practitioners — are known to be victims of forced organ harvesting. An international people’s tribunal in London found that some of China’s 1.5 million detainees in prisons camps have been killed for the state-sanctioned organ transplant trade worth over $1 billion.
“Forced organ harvesting has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale,” said the China Tribunal, calling the crimes “of unmatched wickedness – on a death for death basis.”[2]
However, lack of sufficient data from the Chinese government has shrouded this alleged practice in secrecy preventing the effective identification and support of potential victims trafficked for the purpose of forced organ removal.
That’s why we’re asking UN human rights experts to keep up the pressure on China’s government and push Chinese authorities to issue a meaningful response to the joint communication as soon as possible.
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In solidarity,
Miriam and the team supporting the Freedom United community
| Miriam Karmali Advocacy, Freedom United |
[1] https://www.freedomunited.org/news/forced-organ-harvesting-reports-spark-concern/
