The Grayzone’s Ben Norton saw some of the cult’s activists standing in central Toronto next to a giant banner titled “Stop Forced Live Organ Harvesting in China.”. Print. Mounting evidence tells a terrible tale of murder and mutilation in China.
But an investigation by The Grayzone has found that these allegations originate from front groups run by the far-right opposition cult Falun Gong.Falun Gong, whose devotees can often be seen clad in yellow and performing coordinated qi gong routines in crowded city centers, runs an ultra-conservative, staunchly pro-Donald Trump media network that has been According to a former member of the fringe religious group, Falun Gong believes that an apocalyptic judgement day is soon approaching and “that Trump was sent by heaven to destroy the [Chinese] Communist Party.”In order to understand, then, how heavily politicized rumors from an obscure far-right cult found their way into the headlines, it is essential to trace the roots of the story through an elaborate network of front groups.In June 2019, a London-based organization called the The China Tribunal describes itself as an “independent tribunal into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China.” Most Western journalists took the organization at its word.Up to and after it published the report, the China Tribunal received scattered coverage from various mainstream media outlets, including the One thing all this reporting has in common is that it assumes the China Tribunal is truly “independent.” On its Where do these figures come from, and what brought them together? Large-scale human trafficking, especially children, was a huge problem back to the 2000s, and organ harvesting is probably the same. allegations of systematic organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners who are detained as prisoners of conscience; the reported easily obtainable organs in China and speedy cross matching which implies pre-selection of prisoners for organ harvesting. These doctors are listed as “doctors speaking favourably of the PRC.”“All of these doctors were invited by the Tribunal to participate in the Tribunal’s proceedings. The organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners is not mentioned in the current ABC reports and, as far as we can tell, has not been investigated by ABC. The Trump administration has expressed concern about long-standing allegations that people imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for their faith are being murdered for their organs.
Their participation would have greatly assisted the Tribunal in its work; they all declined the invitations. We testified at legislative hearings to push for laws prohibiting foreigners from going to China for transplants and banning Chinese medical and police personnel from visiting the West.It was an uphill battle. Yet hospitals perform some 60,000 to 90,000 transplant surgeries each year.Chinese hospitals promise that they can deliver hearts, livers, kidneys and corneas of matching blood type and size in two weeks. David Kilgour makes a point of In March, Jia Tolentino published her impressions of From the “baroque and surreal” Shen Yun dance-propaganda show, which bills itself as a last bastion of genuine Chinese culture, she moves to consider some other very troubling aspects of the Falun Gong organization, such as their penchant for resisting journalistic inquiry and harassing critics.Denyer may be the only journalist in the mainstream US press who conducted an independent investigation on organ harvesting in China and seriously questions Falun Gong’s organ harvesting narrative. In June 2019, an independent tribunal sitting in London named the China Tribunal, established to inquire into forced organ harvesting from and among prisoners of conscience in China, stated that the members of the Falun Gong spiritual group continued to be murdered by China for their organs. ETAC is very clearly a Falun Gong front group.Neither ETAC nor China Tribunal discloses these connections, but it hardly takes an intrepid investigative journalist to find them. Now that the China Tribunal has concluded that organ harvesting is happening on a massive scale, and systematically documented the practice, there is no excuse left for inaction. A producer canceled the interview hours before I was due to go on air. By contrast, America has a highly developed voluntary organ-donation system, and recipients typically have to wait hundreds of days.According to human-rights researchers, Chinese prison authorities regularly subject detained Falun Gong practitioners to medical exams to determine the health of their organs (even as they routinely torture these same prisoners). This book showcases their findings in a visceral way that rightly upsets anyone's stomach, yet its multitude of sources should classify it as a research paper or a textbook. It's such a transparently absurd propaganda operation.The fact that mainstream "journalists" are falling for this is pitiful Turning to the China Tribunal’s report itself, it is apparent that, despite the authors’ claim to “have maintained distance and separation from ETAC in order to ensure their independence,” they rely heavily on information curated for them by ETAC.The introduction, after describing ETAC as “a not-for-profit coalition of lawyers, medical professionals and others”, goes on to state that “ETAC’s main interest has been the alleged suffering of practitioners of ‘Falun Gong’, a group performing meditative exercises and pursuing Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, but regarded by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1999 as an ‘anti-humanitarian, anti-society and anti-science cult’.”It is understandable that critics might hesitate to take the PRC’s characterization of Falun Gong at face value.