Evidence Mounts That China Is Harvesting Vital Organs From Prisoners

A study has been published by the Australian National University (ANU) that concluded that the Chinese government data indicates that surgeons working for the Chinese Communists, have murdered prion inmates after robbing them of their organs to be used in transplants.

The study cited years of documentation on the deaths of inmates on death row and they discovered that the inmates were not brain dead before their vital organs were removed and identified Chinese government reports that stated that the inmates “proximate cause” of death was the removal of their organs.

“Might the transplant surgeon become the de facto executioner? Evidence suggestive of such behavior has emerged over many years from the People’s Republic of China (PRC),” the report stated.

The ANU study also came to the conclusion that China had breached medical ethics and there has been mounting evidence over the years that China systemically kills its political dissects, along with any one belonging to religious or spiritual groups – selling their organs to wealthy buyers.

The Uyghur ethnic group, Tibetan Buddhists and Christians, are some of the main targets by the CCP to harvest organs from. Enver Tohti, a Uyghur surgeon, has publicly testified that he was forced to remove the organs of a political prisoner. 

The report found 71 different reports from the CCP that documents evidence of “problematic declarations of brain death” – prisoners having likely died due to their organs being removed.

“The data we rely on in this paper involves transplant surgeries from 1980 to 2015. During this period, there was no voluntary donation system and very few voluntary donors,” the researchers write. “According to three official sources … the number of voluntary (i.e., non-prisoner) organ donors in China cumulatively as of 2009 was either 120 or 130, representing only about 0.3% of the 120,000 organs officially reported to be transplanted during the same period (on the assumption that each voluntary donor gave three organs).”

“The leader of China’s transplant sector wrote in 2007 that effectively 95% of all organ transplants were from prisoners,” the researchers observed. In dozens of examples of “problematic” removal of organs, the study found that, “given that the donors could not have been brain dead before organ procurement, the declaration of brain death could not have been medically sound.”

“It follows that in these cases death must have been caused by the surgeons procuring the organ,” the researchers declared. “If the reports we examine are accurate, they indicate that heart and lung procurement by the surgeon was the proximate cause of the prisoner’s death, thus directly implicating the surgeon in the execution.”

The report also quotes a senior Chinese transplant doctor, Huang Jiefu, a Chinese surgeon specializing in organ transplants, thanking the prison system for providing all the “donated” organs.

“We are deeply grateful to the many cadres in the judicial system, because without their cooperation, without organs donated from death row prisoners, China’s transplantation system would not be as technologically advanced and mature as it is today,” Huang reportedly said.

Matthew Robertson, one of the co-authors of the study, said that organ harvesting is “highly profitable for the doctors and hospitals that engage in them.”

“We found that the physicians became the executioners on behalf of the state, and that the method of execution was heart removal,” Robertson said.

The ANU study’s findings corroborate Enver Tohti’s testimonies – and in 2019, Tohti told the China Tribunal that he was hurried into retrieving the organs of a death row patient in East Turkistan, where the majority of the world’s ethnic Uyghur people live, in 1995.

“There were many corpses, 10? 20? Do not know how many, looking through the windscreen and the driver side window, I was seating next to him, 5 or 6 corpses were visible to me to the left, on the slop[e] of the hill. Shaved heads with prison uniform, the foreheads were blown up,” Tohti recalled at the time. “A police officer shouted at us: to the right, far right, the last one is yours. Confused, why is ours? Not [sic] time for that, moved to the location, our surgeons hold me and told me: hurry up, extract the liver and two kidneys.”

“The man seems already dead anyway, so I started my insertion, the cut designed as upside-down ‘T’ shape, to expose internal organs as wide and possible,” Tohti continued. “My scalpel finds its way cutting his skin, blood could be seen, it implies that his heart was still pumping blood, he was alive! My chief surgeon whispered to me: hurry up!”

The China Tribunal published a report, accusing the CCP of committing crimes against humanity by systematically killing people for their organs.

In addition to Tohti’s evidence, the Tribunal noted a fact also present in the ANU report: “there is a mismatch between the number of donors who become ‘eligible’ each year by dying and the number of actual transplants performed each year. There are more transplants than could possibly come from the number of registered or ‘eligible’ donors.”

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper reported in June 2021, that 100 times more people had “volunteered” to donate organs than in 2015. 

“More than 1.77 million people have been registered as an organ donation volunteer as of Friday at China Organ Transportation Development Foundation (COTDF), an institute supported by China’s National Health Commission,” the state newspaper reported.

“The number shows an increase of about 46.5 percent compared with the number at the end of 2019, despite the impact of the epidemic, according to a report released by COTDF at a Friday conference held in Yan’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province.”

“It is also 100 times higher than at the beginning of 2015, when citizens’ voluntary organ donation after death officially became the only legal channel for organ transplantation in China,” the Global Times concluded.