Introduction
Starting in March 2006, three independent witnesses have publicly stated that some hospitals in China remove organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners without obtaining their prior consent. The witnesses further stated that the unwilling victims had been incarcerated in facilities that resemble detention centers or concentration camps. Their tissue compatibility was systematically analyzed and stored in data banks. This process allowed Chinese transplant surgeons to provide donor organs including kidney, heart, pancreas, liver, skin, and cornea on short notice. Publicly accessible websites of some of these transplant centers promised to provide donor organs within 2-4 weeks, in some cases even within 2 days. In Western countries, the waiting time for organs usually amounts to several years.
The website of the Tianjin Oriental Organ Transplantation Center has documented the increase of liver transplants in a chart, which might serve as example for the expansion of the transplant medicine.
Since March 2006, a large amount of evidence surrounding the practice of systematic government-sanctioned involuntary organ removals from incarcerated victims that are primarily Falun Gong practitioners has been collected and published. Overall the collected information reinforces the reliability of aspects of previous allegations.
The Western understanding of free and voluntary organ donations does not apply to the situation at hand. According to the allegations, in China, the international standards of organ donation are turned upside down and organ recipients are not added to a waiting list until a suitable donor can be identified; rather, the potential organ donors are incarcerated, forming a sort of living organ donor “reservoir”. Their lives are in immediate jeopardy, as soon as their tissues are found to be compatible with an interested organ recipient and their organs are removed without consent. This type of transplantation “on demand” and “for profit” is unprecedented and needs to be investigated.
Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting makes an additional distinction between organ harvesting from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners and organ harvesting from executed prisoners, which has been known to occur in China since late 1980s. In the latter case, the individual is sentenced to death due to a violation of the law, and the organs are removed after execution. Although this form of organ harvesting is itself of questionable morality, it is not yet in the same category as harvesting organs from innocent living Falun Gong practitioners, described in the Kilgour & Matas Report.
The latter involves the murder of individuals detained as prisoners of conscience as part of a state sanctioned persecution of Falun Gong. These individuals did not violate the law and were not charged in judicial courts or sentenced by trial, they are innocent victims because the Chinese government persecutes the Falun Gong movement without having the slightest reason to sentence the individuals. Their organs are removed and sold for profit with the ensuing death of the involuntary donor. Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting holds that this form of execution is part of the persecution of Falun Gong and is tantamount to premeditated murder with associated robbery.
It is important to appreciate that the very nature of secret concentration camps operating inside totalitarian regimes like China where the flow of information is entirely government-controlled, makes it difficult to uncover their inner workings because they remain inaccessible to outside investigators. Nevertheless, the extent of the amassed circumstantial evidence, combined with the uncontested severity of the allegations, demands that Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting takes action to raise awareness about these practices, and to call for additional investigations.
List of evidence, investigation reports of Forced Organ Harvesting

Forced Organ Harvesting in China
The harvesting of organs from executed prisoners in China started in 1984 when a law was implemented in China that allowed the practice. The public first became aware of this practice following the testimony of Dr. Wang Guoqi to the U.S. Congress in 2001. Worldwide, organ harvesting from executed prisoners is banned as unethical.

DAFOH Short Report (May 2020)
In 1984 the People’s Republic of China has adopted provisions that permitted the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners. This allowed China to perform transplantations in absence of a public, voluntary organ donation program. China has always been among those countries with the lowest organ donation rates per million population in the world. Without any changes in the 1984 law and without implementation of a public organ donation program, the annual numbers of organ transplantation in China increased by at least 300% in a few years after 1999.

Matas & Kilgour Report
In July 2006 an independent report was compiled by Messrs. David Kilgour and David Matas, two Canadian attorneys who talked to additional witnesses in China. They were able to collect more than 30 distinct pieces of evidence supporting the allegations of the initial witnesses.

Bloody Harvest/The Slaughter—An Update
BY DAVID KILGOUR | ETHAN GUTMANN | DAVID MATAS
JUNE 22, 2016

More Evidence
In 2014, the documentary Human Harvest has been released. The documentary is based on the investigative work of co-authors David Kilgour and David Matas, who published Bloody Harvest in 2009. In addition the documentary presents new information and developments on the subject of forced organ harvesting in China.

Ethical Guidelines
In 2014, the documentary Human Harvest has been released. The documentary is based on the investigative work of co-authors David Kilgour and David Matas, who published Bloody Harvest in 2009. In addition the documentary presents new information and developments on the subject of forced organ harvesting in China.

Global Organ Trafficking
Worldwide there are different forms of organ theft reported. These cases have in common that they are scattered in various countries and regions. In some countries reports say that organs were removed from homeless people, in other cases those “donors” were offered a refund of a couple hundred dollars in exchange for a kidney donation. All of these cases are questionable and dubious. If these cases are related to living donors they are limited to donations of a second kidney.