China

ORGAN TRADE – Heart per Order

By Martina Keller, Die ZEIT March 13, 2013 [FOFG Editors's note: This is the translation of an article that appeared in the German periodical, Die ZEIT, which was posted on the website of Doctors's Against Forced Organ Harvesting.] In China body organs are taken from executed prisoners, and for a fee, are then implanted in patients from the West. When Beijing attorney Han Bing published his...

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Chinese lawyers beaten at alleged Falun Gong “black jail”

BusinessGhana May 14, 2013 Seven Chinese rights lawyers were assaulted outside an illegal “black jail” reportedly used to detain members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, one of the lawyers and rights groups said on Tuesday. Beijing-based lawyer Liang Xiaojun said the lawyers were released from police custody on Tuesday after they were assaulted and detained outside the...

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‘The Ghosts Walked the Earth, While We Lived in Hell’

‘The Ghosts Walked the Earth, While We Lived in Hell’

By Radio Free Asia May 6, 2013 [Photo caption: A file photo of inmates at a women's labor camp in Zhengzhou, Henan province. (EyePress News)] . Liu Hua spent three years at the Masanjia Women’s re-education through labor facility outside the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang for lodging persistent complaints against the government. In a recent documentary directed by Du Bin and...

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Signature Drives for Falun Gong Continue, Despite Dangers

Signature Drives for Falun Gong Continue, Despite Dangers

Thousands of signatories condemn policy of persecution . By the Falun Dafa Information Center 29 Apr 2013 [Photo caption: 1,300 signatures calling for release of Li Lankui, Hebei Province] NEW YORK—Five new petitions for individual Falun Gong practitioners—some with over 10,000 signatures—have been reported over the past two months, continuing a growing trend across China. While some of the...

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Organ harvesting links pressure Australian university

Organ harvesting links pressure Australian university

7:30 ABC News Australia Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 29/04/2013 Reporter: Adam Harvey An Australian university is under fire for honouring a Chinese professor linked to China’s controversial organ transplant program. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Every year in China thousands of prisoners are executed and their deaths provide kidneys, lungs and livers for the...

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April 25: 14 Years After Appeal, Falun Gong’s Persecution Continues

By NTD April 25, 2013 Standing on the sidewalk, reading books, doing qigong exercises—(practitioner at zhongnanhai reading exercising clarifying truth.mov)this is the site of an appeal outside China’s government ‘s headquarters, Zhongnanhai. On April 25, 1999, an estimated ten thousand practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice gathered silently outside the compound. They were...

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