Forced organ harvesting (FOH) is a form of organ trafficking in which people are killed for their organs to be removed for transplantation. The Chinese Government operates a multi-billion-dollar murder for organs Industry.

In the 1980s China was using organs from death row prisoners, a practice that was widely condemned. Since 1999, Falun Gong (Buddhist qigong & meditation) practitioners have been the main victim group with 60 to 100 thousand transplants taking place each year.  Since 2017, Uyghurs (a predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic group) and other minorities from East Turkistan have been incarcerated in vast numbers. Evidence is building that they are now also killed for their organs by the Chinese Communist Party. Both Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs are forced to undergo organ scans in detention to test the health of their organs.

Tibetans have been persecuted by the Chinese Regime for many years and it is believed that they may also have been drawn into the victim pool along with House Christians and others.

FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERS – Falun Gong is a meditation practice in the Buddhist tradition based on ancient Chinese traditions of health and self-improvement that follows the guiding principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The Falun Gong community became victims from 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party started a campaign of persecution.

UYGHURS – Uyghurs are ethnically and culturally a Turkic people living in areas of Central Asia including Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region/East Turkestan in north-western China. Uyghurs are predominantly Sunni Muslims, and practice a moderate form of Islam and lead mainly secular lives. In 2017 Uyghurs began to be incarcerated in vast numbers with reports emerging of forced organ scans in detention.

The proof that China operates a program of forced organ harvesting is overwhelming.

In 2020, the China Tribunal reviewed extensive evidence. It concluded that “beyond a reasonable doubt,… in China forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practiced for a substantial period of time involving a very substantial number of victims.“

More recently, twelve UN Special Rapporteurs and human rights experts issued a joint correspondence to the Chinese Government regarding credible evidence that the practice is taking place. Read the press release here and the full correspondence issued to China (here).