A medical ethics group has urged U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to demand China to end its illegal organ transplant practices and allow independent investigations into forced organ harvesting.
The appeal made by Washington-based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) on May 6 came ahead of Bachelet’s planned trip to China scheduled for later this month.
“Forced organ harvesting from living people specifically to sell their organs for profitable transplant surgeries is among the most egregious crimes against humanity conceivable,” the group said in a press release.
“In 2006, allegations were raised of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual discipline that follows the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance whose adherents are subjected to the industrialized practice of organ harvesting throughout China’s military and civilian hospital systems,” it continued.
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