ICC Note:

David Matas, Canadian human rights lawyer, and David Kilgour, former prosecutor and secretary of states for Asia-Pacific in Canada called on Australia’s Parliament House to move to stop organ harvesting of prisoners in China. The two claim they have evidence that China harvests and transplants between 60,000 and 100,000 organs a year and the only “plausible explanation” is that they are harvested from religious prisoners that were executed. China claims that it stopped harvesting organs from prisoners in 2015, however, many say the practice continues. There is currently no formal law against organ harvesting in China.

11/21/2016 China (ABC News) – Two Canadian lawyers came to Australia’s Parliament House on Monday to urge lawmakers to pass a motion calling on China to immediately end the practice of what they say is organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience.

David Kilgour, a former prosecutor and Canadian secretary of state for Asia-Pacific, and David Matas, a human rights lawyer, say they have evidence that China performs an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 transplants a year.

They argue that killing Falun Gong practitioners, Muslim Uighurs, Tibetan Buddhists and Christians was the only “plausible explanation” for sourcing of the organs — without offering proof of such practices. China has a black market of ordinary people selling their organs, through brokers, for use in transplants.

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