; Whereas Freedom House reported in 2015 that Falun Gong practitioners comprise the largest portion of prisoners of conscience in China, and face an elevated risk of dying or being killed in custody; Whereas the Department of State Country Report on Human Rights for China for 2016 reported that some international medical professionals and human rights researchers questioned the voluntary nature of the (transplantation) system, the accuracy of official statistics, and official claims about the source of organs ; Whereas the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) stated in 2016 that international observers, including the U.S. House of Representatives and the European Parliament, expressed concern over reports that numerous organ transplantations have used the organs of detained prisoners, including Falun Gong practitioners and also noted that international medical professionals expressed skepticism of reforms raised by discrepancies in official data ; and Whereas a 2017 report by Freedom House concluded that there was credible evidence suggesting that beginning in the early 2000s, Falun Gong detainees were killed for their organs on a large scale : Now, therefore, be it