Beijing had pledged to stop using executed inmates as a source of organ donation transplants - but a tribunal suggested there was no evidence this practice has stopped
Witnesses giving evidence to the tribunal described brutal detention conditions in Xinjiang detention camps. They told of years of imprisonment without trial and alleged they were forced to undergo blood tests and organ scans - and claimed some inmates had disappeared after being tested.
In 1995, aged 32, the surgeon claimed he was instructed to enter a field and operate on a man who had been shot in the chest.Falun Gong members perform in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in a protest against organ harvesting In 2016, the Bloody Harvest report estimated that 60,000 to 100,000 organs are transplanted each year in Chinese hospitals.Up to 300 supporters of the practice of Falun Dafa march against the importing of human organs from China to Austria
Ethan Gutmann, an investigative writer who has spent years scrutinising China's camps, said:"What has happened here is a true crime against humanity. Falun Gong was round one. The Uighurs is round two, and sped up."
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