‘Forced organ harvesting is a red line for the CCP,’ a former Chinese prison survivor says.
A wide exposure of Beijing’s systematic forced organ harvesting scheme on the world stage could trigger the communist regime’s fall, a Chinese prison survivor says.
The Chinese regime’s state-led action—taking organs from prisoners of conscience for sale—is “so evil” that “everyone will stand up to be against it,” William Huang, a dissident who spent five years in a Chinese prison and eventually escaped to the United States, told The Epoch Times.
“This is why they try their best to hide this crime.”
Huang made the remarks after appearing in a recent webinar urging world leaders to call out the abuse.
Whistleblowers in 2006 first revealed the existence of the forced organ harvesting scheme.
Annie, who used an alias in speaking with The Epoch Times, said her ex-husband participated in taking corneas from the detained Falun Gong practitioners in a northeastern Chinese hospital. Doing such work took a mental toll on the doctor. Annie said he had frequent nightmares, with his sweat soaking through the bedsheets.
In 2019, the China Tribunal in London confirmed the longstanding allegation after a year-long investigation, concluding that forced organ harvesting had been happening on a significant scale in China, with practitioners of Falun Gong being a primary victim.
Huang, a Falun Gong practitioner himself, became Beijing’s target over his involvement in setting up The Epoch Times’ website in China in 2000.
Attention has been growing on the issue—five states in the United States have passed laws aiming to block health insurance coverage for organ transplants or post-surgery care for organs originating from China. In Congress, twobills that would impose sanctions on the perpetrators have passed the House.
But Huang, as well as many others, shared frustration over the lack of awareness among the general public.
“This is a contract murder,” Dr. Andreas Weber said in the webinar held on June 14, urging for stricter laws to discourage complicity. Patients, by receiving transplants from China, would become unwitting accomplices, the specialist in trauma surgery and orthopedics said. “It’s a crime from both sides.”
What contributes to the issue is the regime’s effort to censor the topic. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who sponsored the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act that the House has twice voted overwhelmingly in favor of, said a Chinese diplomat emailed his office after the bill’s first passage and demanded that they stop the “anti-U.S. moves.”
By Eva Fu
