“After months of investigation, including undercover interviews with doctors throughout 12 provinces in China, we come to the regrettable conclusion that these allegations are true.” –Hon. David Kilgour, JD, Former Canadian Secretary of State, Asia-Pacific
“It’s a new form of evil on this planet.” –David Matas, Esq., renowned Canadian human rights attorney
“The Chinese regime’s brutal repression, and human rights violations, are well-known, but it is the horrific treatment of the Falun Gong practitioners, that is particularly egregious, yet does not receive the attention that it deserves. Followers of Falun Gong are among China’s most vulnerable to state-sanctioned abuse, which leaves them as likely victims to this ghoulish practice.” –Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, U.S. Congresswoman (R-FL)
“The explanation that most of these organs come from death row inmates is inconclusive…It remains to be seen how it could be possible that organ transplant surgeries in Chinese hospitals have risen massively since 1999, while there are never that many voluntary donors available.” –Dr. Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture
“One day, all the people involved in organ harvesting in Communist China will be held responsible for this crime.” –Edward McMillan-Scott, European Parliament Vice-President for Human Rights and Democracy
“If you’re going to go to China and you’re going to get a liver transplant, during the three weeks you are there, then that means someone is going to go schedule an execution.” –Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D, Director of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Medical Center
“A respected Taiwanese surgeon confessed to me, with no small measure of shame and embarrassment, that his patients were regular recipients of Falun Gong organs on the mainland.” –Ethan Gutmann, freelance investigative journalist
“Overseas and domestic media and advocacy groups continued to report instances of organ harvesting, particularly from Falun Gong practitioners and Uighurs.” –U.S. State Department 2011 Human Rights Report
“The military is making money off of it. The hospitals are making money off of it. The middle men are making money off of it.” –Dr. Damon Noto, Spokesperson for Doctors against Forced Organ Harvesting
“To rip open the body of someone who is simply involved in a religious or personal or political idea that is a contrary to the wishes of the ruling elite, and not a physical threat to the regime, this is about the most monstrous crime that I can conceive of.” –Dana Rohrbacher, U.S. Congressman (R-CA)
“People are being sent to jail, to work camps and are assaulted for their practice of Falun Gong. The Chinese Government must put a stop to this inhumane persecution.” –Lynn Woolsey, U.S. Congresswoman (D-CA)
“Across China, a gruesome trade in human organs is taking place on a mass scale. Like something out of a horror movie, livers, kidneys, hearts, lungs, and corneas are being cut out from prisoners of conscience while they are still alive. The victims are then, if still living by that point, executed. If anything proves the meaning of the term ‘crime against humanity’, it is this bloody, ghoulish practice.” –Benedict Rogers, co-founder and deputy chairman of the UK Conservative Party Human Rights Commission.
“This barbaric human rights abuse must be stopped.” –Chris Smith, U.S. Congressman (R-NJ)
“Please remember those whose organs were pillaged were living people, innocent people. They didn’t do anything wrong at all. They just refused to renounce their belief in truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.” –Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada 2015
“It’s a crime against humanity.” –Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, Prof. of Medicine, UCLA Medical School