and arrested during 2020 for practicing their faith, and some likely died due to abuse and torture while in custody. Credible international reports also suggested that organ harvesting, including from Falun Gong practitioners, likely continued. . (6) The widespread, systematic, state-sponsored persecution of the Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party leadership of the PRC constitutes a clear violation of Falun Gong practitioners’ basic human rights and may constitute genocide. (7) The campaign against Falun Gong is overseen by central branches of the Chinese Communist Party, including the so-called Central Leading Group on Preventing and Dealing with Heretical Religions . On May 12, 2021, Yu Hui, a former Office Director of this group, was targeted for sanctions by the United States Government. (8) Reports, such as those mentioned in this legislation, suggest that China’s organ transplantation system does not comply with the majority of the World Health Organization’s Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation, insofar as organs are said to be primarily sourced from prisoners without voluntary consent, organs are reported to be traded for payment, the level of transparency and traceability in the organ procurement process is low, and the Chinese Communist Party has prevented independent or impartial inspection, scrutiny and verification of its transplant system. (9) On June 14, 2021, a joint statement by United Nations human rights experts expressed extreme alarm over reports of alleged organ harvesting targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians in detention in China . (10) Based on independent research and official statistics, it is clear that many organ transplants conducted in the PRC do not meet internationally accepted ethical standards. (11) Freedom House in its Freedom in the World 2021 report entry on China stated that The government claims it has ended the transplantation of organs from executed prisoners. However, the