China faces suspicions about organ harvesting | csmonitor.com

PROTEST: Falun Gong members picket a transplant conference in Boston to publicize a report that claims the organs of Falun Gong prisoners in China are being harvested.

China faces suspicions about organ harvesting | csmonitor.com

Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor



A pair of human rights activists are charging that
"a crime against humanity" is happening on a large scale in China.
Members of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned by the Chinese
government since 1999, are being "in effect, murdered for their
organs," which are being sold to buyers from China and abroad, says
David Kilgour, a former member of the Canadian Parliament and coauthor
of the report.
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As part of their report alleging that China was executing Falun Gong prisoners and harvesting their organs for transplantation, Canadian lawyers and human rights activists David Kilgour and David Matas included transcripts of telephone calls made by Mandarin Chinese speakers from North America to hospitals and other institutions in China. The callers inquired about the availability of organs from Falun Gong prisoners. The caller below is identified only as "M" to protect his or her identity. Excerpts from English translations of some of the transcripts follow: