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Organ Harvesting Still Happening in China Today, Says Report Author
Two years ago, a groundbreaking investigative report by two high-profile Canadian lawyers raised the horrific possibility that tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience in China were being killed...
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Indifference the Real Restraint
Lawyer David Matas. (Woody Wu/AFP/Getty Images) People should not feel powerless about human rights atrocities occurring around the world, says international human rights lawyer David Matas; there is...
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Harper Urged to Raise Falun Gong Forced Organ Harvesting Issue on China Trip
Co-authors David Matas (seated), an international human rights lawyer; and David Kilgour (R), a former cabinet minister and crown prosecutor; signing their new book at the Nov. 16, 2009, book launch...
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Canadians Honored for Fight Against Organ Harvesting in China
Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour and David Matas, a human rights lawyer, both received the 2009 Human Rights Prize from the International Society for Human Rights....
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The Real ‘Repo Men’
(Courtesy Universal Pictures)A new Hollywood sci-fi film Repo Men, starring Jude Law, Academy Award winning actor Forrest Whitaker, and directed by Miguel Sapochnik, is set in the future at a time...
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Governor General Presents Order of Canada Awards
International human rights lawyer David Matas poses with Governor General Michaelle Jean at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on April 7, 2010, after being awarded the rank of Member of the Order of Canada. (Sgt...
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David Matas: Discovering Organ Harvesting in China
Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Matas speaks at a book presentation at Vancouver Public Library.VANCOUVER, Canada—On a serene evening in Vancouver, a full house of about 70 came to Vancouver Public...
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David Matas: Lessons From the Holocaust, Organ Harvesting in China
Men of conscience often face tremendous challenges in life. Driven by their hearts, when exposed to injustice and evil, they cannot turn away; despite the risks, they choose to do what they believe is...
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Illicit Organ Harvesting in China Highlighted at International Conference
Human rights attorney David Matas speaks at 2010 International Conference on Human Rights Education in Sydney. (Epoch Times) SYDNEY — Canadian human rights attorney, David Matas, spoke about China’s...
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Wenyi Wang: Why I Protested Hu Jintao at the White House
Wenyi Wang pictured in the lobby of Lincoln Center in New York on January 16, 2011. (Dai Bing/Epoch Times Staff)On April 20, 2006, I interrupted remarks by China’s paramount leader Hu Jintao at a...
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Doctors’ Suicides Focus Chinese Public on Organ Harvesting
David Matas, who researches the organ harvesting of Falun Gong. (The Epoch Times ) The news of two doctors’ suicides has people on China’s Internet talking about an atrocity that until very recently...
View ArticleChinese Repression Extends Worldwide: Lawyer
MONTREAL—Canadian courts and tribunals don’t understand the Chinese regime’s global repression of targeted groups, human rights lawyer and Nobel Prize nominee David Matas told the 2012 conference of...
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Malaysian Transplantation Experts: Illegal Organ Transplant Overseas is Risky...
Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas joined Malaysian transplantation experts in raising public awareness about the dangers of, and the unethical practices involved in, illegal organ transplants...
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Why We Must Protest: The Case of Falun Gong
Editor’s note: After taking part in an event on July 8 in Singapore marking the launch of his book (with David Kilgour) “Bloody Harvest: The killing of Falun Gong for their organs,” David Matas met...
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‘Take a stand’ Urge Doctors Against Organ Harvesting
Speakers (from left to right) Arne Schwarz, Ethan Gutmann, Man-Yan Ng, David Matas, and Harold King sit at the conference on July 18. Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, a medical advocacy group,...
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Sale of Anti-Rejection Drugs to China Scrutinized by Expert
David Matas spoke at a forum in Singapore on July 9. He addressed the questionable practice of large pharmaceutical companies selling anti-rejection drugs to China, without ensuring they will not be...
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On a Mission to Stop Organ Harvesting
During a recent interview with Canadian attorney David Matas about his new book on organ harvesting in China, I noticed something: he is an incredibly busy guy. During a very short trip to Jerusalem...
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Chinese Regime Lurches Toward Disclosing Organ Harvesting
Clamps, scissors and other surgical instruments used in the operating room during a kidney transplant. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) The atrocity has been in plain sight for years, while the...
View ArticleChina’s Secret State Transplant Business (Video)
It’s being called “abhorrent” and a “crime against humanity.” Allegations of forced organ harvesting in China started to surface in 2006. Since then, mounting evidence suggests these allegations are...
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Chinese Regime Covering Up Atrocities, Say Researchers
Clamps, scissors and other surgical instruments used in the operating room during a kidney transplant. In 2009 Matas was able to access data from the registry, and referred to it in his research to...
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Engaging Beijing on Organ Pillaging
David Kilgour is a director of the Washington-based Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD). (Courtesy of David Kilgour) Fellow Canadian David Matas and I are here to urge your government,...
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Organ Harvesting, Falun Gong, and the Future of China
David Matas in Jerusalem in September 2012. David Matas is an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (Genevieve Belmaker/The Epoch Times) What impact is the killing of...
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Canada Should Hold Hearing on Transplant Abuse in China, Says MP Irwin Cotler
Liberal MP and former justice minister Irwin Cotler speaks to allegations of illicit organ harvesting by the Chinese regime at an interview on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Dec. 4, 2012. Cotler says China...
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Book Exposes Organized Killing for Organs in China
The question of where China has obtained organs for the tens of thousands of transplants that have been conducted there over the last decade is a vexing, contentious and crucial one. Everyone knows the...
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Top Officials Implicated in Organ Harvesting in China
Before he kicked off the biggest political storm in recent Chinese communist history last February after attempting to defect at a U.S. Consulate in southwestern China, police chief Wang Lijun...
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China in Fifty Seconds
China’s turn came up again on Oct. 22, 2013 at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review Working Group in Geneva. Since 2006, once every four years, every country comes under scrutiny. China came...
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1.5 Million in 53 Countries Say ‘No’ to Organ Harvesting in China
A grass-roots movement that has spanned 5 continents and 53 countries reached a climax Monday morning in Geneva when a delegation from the organization Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting formally...
View ArticleItalian Senate Passes Resolution on Organ Harvesting in China
A commission on human rights inside the Italian Senate passed a resolution recently that declared that the Chinese Communist Party has harvested the organs of tens of thousands of prisoners, and called...
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Forced Organ Harvesting Continues in China, Canadian Lawyer Says
The Chinese regime’s macabre practice of killing prisoners of conscience for their organs and selling them to transplant tourists for “huge money” has not abated—that was the grim message imparted at a...
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Transplant Tourism Website in China Taken Offline
Until some point in May it was possible to go to the unassumingly titled cntransplant.com website and, then and there, place a phone call to arrange a transplant organ from a hospital in Tianjin,...
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The Disappearing China Organ Transplantation Conference
The month of June this year was to be one of celebration for the Chinese transplant community. An important conference was planned, the agenda of which was “to establish China as a model for the...
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Italian Medical Community Changes Pace in Fight Against International Organ...
The world is acting quickly to counter the international traffic organs and Italy is in the game. Only three days ago, July 9th, the Council of Europe adopted the first convention to combat human...
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Canadian Rights Lawyer David Matas Receives Award in Italy
Upon learning about the Holocaust in his youth, David Matas felt the urge to do something in response to the massive crime against humanity. He later found his calling in taking up human rights causes....
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The Slaughter: Canadian Book Tour Raises Awareness About China’s Illegal...
U.S. author Ethan Gutmann’s new book, The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, is a riveting inside account of China’s booming organ...
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Organ Transplantation Experience in China Is Ultimate Horror Story
A Taiwanese patient received a matched liver and a matched kidney within only a month in a hospital in a city in northern China, according to an exclusive interview on Oct. 30 by the New York-based,...
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Film on Organ Harvesting Wins Best Documentary
“Davids and Goliath,” a film about organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China, won Best Documentary at the 9th Hamilton Film Festival in Hamilton, Canada. “Davids and Goliath”...
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China Hastily Announces Purported End to Organ Harvesting
LONDON—During a pause in the current world tour by authors of books on organ harvesting, the Chinese regime announced it will end the practice of harvesting organs from prisoners by Jan. 1, 2015. As...
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Commemorating the Holocaust
January 27 is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the day the United Nations General Assembly designated by a resolution passed in 2005 for commemorating the Holocaust. I, along with many...
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White House Responds to Petition on Organ Harvesting in China
Late on a Friday afternoon the White House responded to a petition submitted to their “We the People” site about 3 years ago that called for investigating and publicly condemning organ harvesting from...
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Doctors Cast Doubt on China’s Promises of Organ Transplant Reform
Recent promises by Chinese officials to cease the use of executed prisoners as a source for transplant organs has attracted the scrutiny of a Washington, D.C.-based organization of medical doctors and...
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China’s Horrific Live Organ Harvesting Revealed in Documentary
SYDNEY—A harrowing documentary on forced organ harvesting from live prisoners in China has highlighted concerns that the state sanctioned practice continues despite claims by Chinese health officials...
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Organ Sourcing in China: The Official Version
The following are remarks prepared by David Matas, a human rights lawyer, for a symposium in Bern, Switzerland, on April 16, 2015. Matas is the recipient of numerous awards for his human rights work,...
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David Matas: Life as a Human Rights Defender
At some point in our lives we all face difficult choices that test our ability to judge right from wrong. David Matas, a Winnipeg lawyer who has focused his life and career on combating human rights...
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China’s Forced Organ Transplant Industry Much Larger Than Suspected, Say...
A decade ago, two Canadians released a report on illicit organ harvesting in China so shocking that many struggled to believe it. Since then, the investigation has continued and they’ve now updated...
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Cross-Canada Tour Puts Focus on Murder for Organs in China
Falun Gong practitioners in the 100-odd countries where the spiritual discipline is practised take every opportunity to raise awareness about the ongoing abuses toward their fellow practitioners in...
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International Transplant Leaders Failed to Disclose Connection to China Research
HONG KONG—Two key leaders in international organ transplantation have for several years been involved in an undisclosed, cooperative relationship with Chinese transplantation centers, raising questions...
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Rebel Transplant Conference Held in Hong Kong
HONG KONG—On the penultimate day of The Transplantation Society’s premier industry congress at the Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, a smaller conference with a slightly different focus was...
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Hard Hitting Organ Harvesting Documentary Concludes Australian Tour
SYDNEY, Australia―Multi-award winning film documentary “Hard To Believe”―an expose of organ pillaging from prisoners of conscience in China has wrapped up its premiere tour across Australia and New...
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Prominent Transplant Ethicist Supports Investigation into Organ Sourcing in...
STOCKHOLM—Dr. Annika Tibell is one of the world’s most respected voices in the ethics of organ transplantation. Currently Chief Physician for the New Karolinska Hospital Project, commissioned this fall...
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Australia: Falun Gong Practitioners Appeal to Stop Organ Harvesting
On November 21, hundreds of Australian Falun Gong practitioners rallied in front of Capital Hill in Canberra to raise awareness of the ongoing human rights abuses perpetrated against their fellow...
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