Organizers of the petition said it allows people to act rather than remain idle, in ending what they called ‘horrible transplant abuse’ in the civilized world.
More than half a million people around the world have signed a petition calling on the Group of Seven and other countries to take action against the Chinese communist regime’s practice of harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience.
The petition, launched by Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China in July 2024, has garnered 505,970 signatures from 34 countries as of Dec. 15.
The petition seeks to have the governments of the Group of Seven nations—the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK—as well as Argentina, Australia, India, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan, take the lead in standing up against the Chinese regime’s crimes of forced organ harvesting. The abuse targets prisoners of conscience such as detained Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and other ethnic and religious minorities.
Weeks before their announcement, a global group of hundreds of lawmakers jointly pledged to advance legislation to ban forced organ harvesting.
DAFOH said the petition campaign will continue, with organizers now aiming to reach 1 million signatures by June 2026.
“We address the issue of forced organ harvesting directly to sovereign governments to inform them about the wish of the people to stop such horrible transplant abuse in our civilized world, while at the same time address it to the executive branch, the decision-makers in those governments,” DAFOH Executive Director Dr. Torsten Trey recently told The Epoch Times.
“To see this support from people around the world is promising. Not only do we let people know what China has done in the past 25 years of persecuting Falun Gong, but we also create a platform for people to not stand idle but to contribute to ending it, one signature at a time.”
By Eva Fu and Frank Fang
