Sanctions Bill Against Groups Involved in China’s Murderous Organ Harvesting Industry Submitted to House of Representatives

Rep. Chris Smith, NJ, introduced a bill to crack down on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organ harvesting industry, which is used in the prolific and lucrative organ transplant business.

Experts say China is using imprisoned prisoners of conscience as an organ donor pool to provide patients with compatible transplants. These prisoners are reportedly executed and have their organs harvested against their will.

Smith told Fox News Digital that he has been raising the issue of forced organ harvesting for years. Although the trade in human body parts occurs all over the world, “no one does it in a more egregious way than [China does with] up to 100,000 victims are killed every year to get their organs,” Smith said.

“They are mostly Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, Uyghurs and Muslims. This is a barbaric practice that is reminiscent of the Nazi practice of completely unethical use of drugs.”

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USA Today reported that between 25,000 and 50,000 prisoners are allegedly killed every year to remove 50,000 to 150,000 organs.

Falun Gong supporters demonstrate in front of the UN building. (Adam Shaw/Fox News)

“Our bill will not only require the State Department to give a thorough account of this egregious practice, but even it provides for sanctions that any part of this supply chain, anyone who is part of it, be banned from entering the United States and they cannot do business here. in no shape, no form,” said Smith, who is co-chair of the Congressional Executive Committee on China.

On Wednesday, the Foreign Affairs Committee voted unanimously to bring the bill to the House of Representatives.

Nina Shi, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Hudson Institute, says China has seen a rapid growth in the transplant sector since the late 1990s, and transplants can be made available on demand.

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“The reason they attack Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs is because they were arrested in very large numbers. [religious minorities] were detained. No one knows [how many] because there are no records and there was no human rights group that documented it because it is such a closed society,” she said.

Ethnic Uighurs pray at a mosque in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region. REUTERS/ Nir Elias.

Shi says there should be records of organ status and blood types, but it’s hard to pinpoint the source of the organs other than doctors and prison guards.

“Surgeons don’t know, nurses and guards don’t necessarily know where these people come from, and at some point they are killed. I heard that they are sometimes killed in prisons. I heard that they are sometimes killed in hospitals,” she added.

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In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) created a Task Force on Human Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation.

This photo, taken September 30, 2022, in Bangkok’s Sathorn district shows an immigrant detention center where human rights activists believe a group of Uyghurs are being held. Nearly a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs languish in Thai immigration centers, facing an uncertain future as the kingdom struggles to strike a balance between Beijing and Washington. (Photo by JACK TAYLOR/AFP via Getty Images) (JACK TAYLOR/AFP via Getty Images.)

“The pioneering researchers in this matter told me that the WHO Task Force immediately dismissed their evidence. This gave the WHO cover to ignore these serious concerns about China’s transplant sector,” Shi said.

The WHO told Fox Digital that the task force is no longer active.

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