article_snippet.sent: When reports first emerged from China in 2006 that state-run hospitals were killing prisoners of conscience to sell prisoners of conscience organs, it seemed too horrible to be true.
article_snippet.sent: the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China requested that Mr Kilgour and Mr Matas investigate allegations of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China because of Falun Gong practitioners extensive academic and political backgrounds and prior involvement in human rights activism.
article_snippet.sent: The damning evidence Mr Kilgour and Mr Matas investigate allegations of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China because of their extensive academic and political backgrounds and prior involvement in human rights activism uncovered suggests that tens of thousands of innocent people have been killed on demand to supply an ongoing illegal organ transplant industry.
article_snippet.sent: Human rights lawyer David Matas (pictured) investigated allegations of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China and uncovered some gruesome facts .
article_snippet.sent: The pair have spent years investigating organ trafficking in China, and organ trafficking in China's claimed that political prisoners are being used as live organ donors.
article_snippet.sent: political prisoners believe the organs come from members of the Falun Gong movement – a quasi-religious group with millions of followers, which is banned by the Chinese Government.
article_snippet.sent: I can testify that this hospital forcibly removed organs, such as livers and corneas,’ says former worker Annie of allegations that members of the Falun Gong movement were killed for members of the banned Falun Gong movement organs.
article_snippet.sent: The pair have spent years investigating organ trafficking in China, and organ trafficking in China's claimed that political prisoners are being used as live organ donors .
article_snippet.sent: Some practitioners were still breathing after Some practitioners organs were removed, but Some practitioners were thrown into the hospital’s incinerator anyway.'
article_snippet.sent: Sadly the sale of organs has become a source of funding,David Matas David Matas told Daily Mail Australia.
article_snippet.sent: However, in recent years China has been heavily criticized by the UN for the UN use of death row prisoners for organ transplanting.
article_snippet.sent: Laws preventing organ tourism to China are being instated around the world and are already in place in Israel and Spain.
article_snippet.sent: Both US Congress and the European Parliament have passed resolutions condemning Chinese regime's practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, and asking China to stop such practice.
article_snippet.sent: In recent years China has been heavily criticized by the UN for the UN use of death row prisoners for organ transplanting .
highlights_snippet.sent: Political prisoners in particular being used as live organ donors .
  