Organ Harvesting New Form of Execution in China

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Free Beacon:

Organ harvesting has become a new form of execution for political prisoners in China in recent years, according to a new book by a longtime China analyst and human rights investigator.

 

Ethan Gutmann discussed his new book, The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem on Tuesday at the National Endowment for Democracy. Gutmann estimates in the book that about 65,000 practitioners of the Falun Gong religion, a spiritual discipline now banned in China, were killed for their organs between 2000 and 2008.

 

Tibetans and Muslim Uighurs, minorities in China long persecuted for their beliefs, have also been targeted, he said. Organ sales can yield hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits.