Organ trafficking

Organ trafficking

Organ trafficking

Complexity

"Trafficking in human beings for the removal of organs remains one of the least understood and addressed forms of human trafficking globally.is one of the least understood and addressed forms of human trafficking globally."

China

In 2006, allegations emerged that a large number of Falun Gong practitioners had been murdered to supply China's organ transplant industry. These allegations prompted an investigation by former Canadian Secretary of State David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas.

In August 2009, Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture said that "The Chinese government has yet to come clean and be transparent ... 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."

In 2012, State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China, edited by David Matas and Dr. Torsten Trey was published with essays from six medical professionals, Ethan Gutmann, David Matas and an essay co-written by Kilgour. Ethan Gutmann interviewed over 100 witnesses and estimated that 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners were killed for their organs from 2000 to 2008.

2019 Tribual

As of 2019, illegal detention, torture, murder and organ harvesting of Falun Gong adherents was still ongoing. A tribunal chaired by Geoffrey Nice in London suggested a conservative estimate is that 60,000-90,000 transplant operations were conducted each year.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo	webpage	7 January 2011	Dick Marty
Document:Investigation of allegations of inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking in human organs in Kosovo	webpage	25 January 2011	Dick Marty
Document:Ukrainian soldiers' organs traded	correspondence	6 July 2014	Sergey Vlasenko Olga Wieber Semyon Semyonchenko	An apparent hoax about hacked correspondence between Donbass Battalion commander, Yulia Tymoshenko's lawyer and a German medical practitioner evidencing a burgeoning trade in the organs of Ukrainian soldiers
File:Council of Europe Kosovo Report.pdf	report	12 December 2010	The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
File:NATO-KFOR-Kosovo Organised Crime.ppt	presentation			This appears to be a NATO-KFOR presentation on organised crime in Kosovo. The presentation is marked "SECRET NATO" and "Created by "Cpt. Sikora CZA". There is no indication of date but it's contents place it around 2000-2004 - probably as part of the considerations surrounding the preparations for declaring Kosovo independance from Serbia.
File:NATO-KFOR-Kosovo Organised Crime.zip	image			38 images which appear to be the content of a NATO-KFOR presentation on organised crime in Kosovo. The presentation is marked "SECRET NATO" and "Created by "Cpt. Sikora CZA". There is no indication of date but it's contents place it around 2000-2004 - probably as part of the considerations surrounding the preparations for declaring Kosovo independance from Serbia.
File:UNMIK Forensic Report Organ Trafficking Kosovo.pdf	report	18 June 2004		A forensic report of the examination of a house in Burrel, Albania, alleged to have been used for the removal of human organs prior to the killing an burial of victims.
File:UNMIK Investigation Organ Trafficking Kosovo.pdf	report			Extensive information about human organ trafficking in Kosovo implicating senior members of the Kosovo government. It comprises a memo to the then UN Chief of Investigations from the Head of the UNMIK Mission - the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo - dated 30 October 2003, together with documents dealing with various aspects of the investigations.

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