As part of a global campaign to create legislation to combat and prevent forced organ harvesting, lawmakers in Taiwan proposed a criminal law to “severely punish the atrocity of forced organ harvesting” around the world, and especially in mainland China, where forced organ harvesting from living prisoners of conscience has been going on for two decades.
On the eve of International Human Rights Day, Taiwan legislators across party lines held a press conference to promote and rally more support for the proposed law. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Hsu Chih-chieh, the main initiator of the anti-forced organ harvesting law, said in the press conference, “it is Taiwan’s national policy to establish a human rights state. … We must let the world know how brutal the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in its efforts to harvest and sell human organs.”…