Ethicists Protest China’s Invite to Vatican Organ Summit
In 2013, after years of policy adjustment and the conclusion of a pilot program, China began an...
Feb 8, 2017
In 2013, after years of policy adjustment and the conclusion of a pilot program, China began an...
Aug 19, 2016
In 2013, the Chinese government announced a phaseout of the use of organs from executed prisoners...
Jun 24, 2016
A new report by former Canadian politician David Kilgour, human rights lawyer David Matas, and...
Nov 26, 2015
The New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports that former deputy health minister Dr. Huang...
Nov 17, 2015
After years of criticism from international health and human rights groups for its reliance on...
Dec 5, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Dec 4, 2014
China’s harvesting of organs from executed prisoners has long been the target of human...
Aug 15, 2014
As of August 15, the following search terms were blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search...
May 13, 2014
A prolific contributor to the U.S.-based Chinese news site Boxun.com was detained on May 3rd for...
Jan 10, 2014
The New Yorker’s Jiayang Fan reports concerns that plans to phase out organ harvesting from...
Aug 28, 2013
The Global Times reports on a reward offered for information about the 6-year-old boy whose eyes...
Aug 15, 2013
China has long been criticized by international health and human rights organizations for having...
Nov 22, 2012
A senior health official claimed that China will curb the use executed prisoners as a source of organ transplants while bolstering a volunteer donor program that it hopes will help to limit the much-criticized practice: Nearly...
Nov 2, 2012
The practice of harvesting transplant organs from executed prisoners is one of China’s most infamous human rights violations. In March, vice health minister Huang Jiefu announced that it would soon be phased out in favour...
Aug 5, 2012
As China puts an end to inmate organ harvesting, Xinhua reports authorities have arrested 137 suspects involved in a human organ trafficking ring:Chinese police said Saturday that 137 suspects had been arrested in the latest...
Mar 23, 2012
China, long notorious for being the world’s most lavish state practitioner of the death penalty, has announced that it will put an end to the practice of harvesting the organs of executed prisoners by 2017. China Daily...
Jan 4, 2012
Human rights lawyer David Matas has reportedly been barred from Russia for co-authoring a report on allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The report was later classified as “extremist...
Jun 2, 2011
From Shanghai Daily: A 17-year-old student in Anhui Province sold one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan only to buy an iPad 2. Now, with his health getting worse, the boy is feeling regret but it is too late, the Global Times...