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think- ago

Just found this today -

Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/06/call-for-retraction-of-400-scientific-papers-amid-fears-organs-came-from-chinese-prisoners

kestrel9 ago

Unbelievable, great find, thank you!

While the government says 10,000 transplants occur each year, hospital data shows between 60,000 to 100,000 organs are transplanted each year. The report provides evidence that this gap is being made up by executed prisoners of conscience.

"PER YEAR" so between 50,000 - 90,000 PER YEAR based on this article. That's just what's reported.

While China vowed to stop using organs from executed prisoners in 2015, no new law or regulation has been passed banning the practice. Humanitarian groups including Amnesty International have voiced concerns that the practice is continuing.

Notice they imply the organs are harvested after the prisoner is dead?

In December, the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China issued its interim report, finding: “The tribunal’s members are all certain – unanimously, and sure beyond reasonable doubt – that in China forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practised for a substantial period of time involving a very substantial number of victims.”

The tribunal’s full report is due in 2019.

BOOM

think- ago

What you'll have to take into account is that there is also a lot of disinfo spread by Falun Gong (sp.?), a sect that is prosecuted in China. Imo they are behind outlets like 'TheEpochTimes', and sometimes I don't know whether they make things up about Chinese organ trafficking, or whether the info is legit.

So difficult so discern what is legit, and what might be sensationalized, although I think there is really dark stuff going on in China. Never forget they are a dictatorship, not a democracy.

On a side note, Jeff Bezos of Amazon is now running prisons in China where Muslims are sent for 're-education'.

@letsdothis3

kestrel9 ago

Jeff Bezos of Amazon is now running prisons in China where Muslims are sent for 're-education'

You've got to be kidding. What the heck?!

think- ago

Nope. Read it a couple of days ago. Either in the Guardian or the DailyMail. Amazon just got a contract for that.

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