Forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China

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The People's Republic of China has been alleged to harvest the organs of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. Initial reports of organ harvesting began with the Falun Gong-affiliated Epoch Times in 2006. In a subsequent report, known as the Kilgour–Matas report, former lawmaker David Kilgour and legal counsel David Matas estimated that over 41,500 organ transplants in China were unexplained between 2000 and 2005 and suggested that the source was Falun Gong practitioners. They updated their research in 2007 and released it as a book in 2009, receiving further media coverage. Journalist Ethan Gutmann began investigating the claims in 2006 and published his research in subsequent years. He estimated that 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners had been killed between 2000 and 2008 for their organs. In 2016, Gutmann, Kilgour, and Matas updated their research and estimated that 60,000 to 100,000 transplant surgeries were performed in China per year, far higher than its official figure. An informal...

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