A tribunal accused the Chinese government of harvesting organs from minority groups in China during a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting on Tuesday.
The China Tribunal, backed by Australian non-profit the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, claimed in the council meeting that China specifically targeted Uighur Muslims and religious group Falun Gong for organ harvest. A lawyer for the tribunal, Hamid Sabi, told representatives for the UN that China removed skin, hearts, kidneys, and lungs from the persecuted minorities.
“Forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, including the religious minorities of Falun Gong and Uighurs, has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale,” Sabi said in a video on the group’s website.
China has previously asserted that they stopped harvesting prisoner organs in 2015, but the China Tribunal claims that this practice is ongoing, saying a significant number of prisoners were “killed to order” in a July report.
Sabi claimed “hundreds of thousands of victims,” of Chinese organ harvesting during the Tuesday Council meeting. “[It is] one of the worst mass atrocities of this century.”
