The international community has repeatedly raised evidence-based accusations of live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and executed prisoners at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). High level CCP officials indicate that organ transplants from executed prisoners will be banned by next year. Commentators believe that before the impending Third Plenary Session, the issue of organ transplants involving executed prisoners has been raised again. This is thought to show that the current leadership are using this to warn factional opponents not to take political actions. China is believed to be the only country systematically using executed prisoners as sources of organs for transplantation. Huang Jiefu is a Director of Organ Transplantation Technology, and former Deputy Minister of Health. On November 2, Huang spoke in a meeting in Hangzhou. Any qualified organ transplantation hospital will be banned from using executed prisoners organs. The ban will take effect in May or June next year. Only voluntary donors' organs can be used, via a newly launched distribution system. Surgeons said in the meeting that the new policies may affect the quantities available for transplants. There will be a temporary shortage of organs. Lin Zixu, current affairs commentator: "Huang Jiefu's speech is likely to ease current international pressure. Huang said that only donor organs can be used. However, the CCP has persecuted Falun Gong since 1999, and many people now have personal interests entwined within live organ harvesting. It is difficult to achieve the ban in a short time." In the 1970s, the international community began to condemn the CCP for it's practice of illegally taking organs from executed prisoners However, the CCP has always denied the allegations. In 2006, live organ harvesting practices were exposed globally. The Ministry of Health admitted that the organs came from executed prisoners. Lin Zixu: "The Third Plenary Session is opening soon. Huang Jiefu openly mentioned the ban of live organ harvesting from executed prisoners. This is certainly not his normal behavior. It likely meets the needs of the CCP's internal struggles. Some people want to hit at Jiang Zemin and Zhou Yongkang's weak points. This is to warn the two to not take negative actions before the CCP's important meeting." In 1999, the CCP launched the persecution of Falun Gong. Since 2000, China has become a world leading country in organ transplantation. At the end of September this year, the 24th UN Human Rights Council Session took place in Geneva. Spanish human rights lawyer, Carlos Iglesias directly raised allegations against Jiang Zemin, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader. Jiang was described as designing and organizing a series of strategies to annihilate many million Falun Gong practitioners. In June, the US Congress once again raised a resolution to stop the CCP harvesting organs. In September, experts called on the Taiwanese government to stop trading possibilities, and stop providing opportunities for it's citizens to go to China to have organ transplantations. Lin Shih-chia, CEO of Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan commented. Going to China for organ transplants, one can book a surgery at an accurate time and location. It is worth questioning if these organs are forcibly removed. Wang Chuying, a U.S.-based Falun Gong practitioner spoke to NTD about this issue. In 2004, Wang was illegally held in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. While there, another practitioner called Xin Shuhua was held in the same location. Xin was tortured using various methods. Later, the party secretary of Masanjia intended to remove organs from Xin. Wang Chuying: "The secretary Wang Naiming told Xin Shuhua that people like her should be sent to Sujiatun. He said, "You want to be a good person, then you should donate your heart." Xin said that if she donates her heart, how can she practice Falun Gong? Xin said no. Wang told her that it wasn't her decision, and contacted Sujiatun hospital." Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital was one of the first hospitals in Mainland China to have live organ harvesting allegations brought against it. The distance from Masanjia Forced Labour Camp to Sujiatun is about 34 kilometers. Falun Gong practitioner Yu Xinhui was held in Guangdong's Sihui Prison. The prison doctor knew Yu. He persuaded Yu not to against the CCP, otherwise, his organ might be secretly taken. Yu Xinhui: "At that time, this doctor told me that Falun Gong practitioners are doing qigong exercises. Because they do, they have such good health, and their organs are certainly good. Which would you choose, they said, practitioners organs or prisoners organs? Prisoners are likely to be drug addicts, alcoholics with many bad habits, and their organs are damaged. Falun Gong organs are the best, they said." Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, spoke in an interview with the Epoch Times, in August 2009.

• published: 05 Nov 2013
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