WSJ: In China, New Evidence That Surgeons Became Executioners

PRAXHF Prague, Czech Republic. 28th Sep, 2018. Hundreds of supporters of the Chinese Falun Gong movement marched through the Prague centre on September 28, 2018, celebrating the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, but also warning of the persecution of the movement in China. The banner on the photo reads Stop organ harvesting in China. Credit: Ondrej Deml/CTK Photo/Alamy Live News

Clinical reports recount scores of cases in which organ donors were alive when operations began.

By Jacob Lavee and Matthew P. Robertson
May 31, 2022

Eight doctors at the Tongji Medical College hospital in Wuhan, China, traveled 40 miles on March 18, 1994, to procure a heart from a death-row prisoner. But rather than wait until the judicial authorities had executed the prisoner, the doctors carried out the execution themselves—by heart extraction.

In a large-scale review we conducted of nearly 3,000 Chinese-language clinical reports and published in the American Journal of Transplantation, we find surgeons acknowledging such actions again and again.

To read the full article:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-new-evidence-surgeon-doctor-execution-murder-prisoner-organ-harvesting-donor-uyghur-falun-gong-genocide-human-rights-world-health-organization-who-11654012796