1.5 Million People Call Upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Press China to End Forced Organ Harvesting
On Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) will hold a press conference in Los Angeles, Calif. to end forced organ harvesting on prisoners of conscience in China. The conference will reveal the atrocities of forced organ harvesting. DAFOH spokesperson Dr. Dana Churchill available for interviews, along with victims of persecution and forced organ harvesting.
- (1888PressRelease) December 08, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA - On Human Rights Day, December 10, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), will hold a press conference in front of the Consulate General of The People's Republic of China in Los Angeles from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., announcing that 1.5 million people from more than 50 countries call upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to press China for an immediate end to forced organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners.
Over the past five months, DAFOH, a nonprofit organization founded by medical doctors from all over the world who aim to stop unethical and illegal organ harvesting, and their many worldwide volunteers, have been collecting signatures against forced organ harvesting leading up to Human Rights Day. DAFOH, along with its volunteers and supporters, will be holding press conferences in several cities, including Los Angeles, to announce the results of its signature collection campaign.
Since the Chinese government's practice of forced organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners was first disclosed in 2006, there has been an abundance of information and a deluge of outcries from around the world against this hideous crime against humanity. Israel enacted legislation preventing its citizens from going to China for organ transplantation. Spain subsequently enacted a law against procurement of organs from illegal human organ trafficking. Other countries such as Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have also taken measures against the Chinese government's illegal human organ trafficking practice.
In June, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Robert Andrews initiated House Resolution 281, calling on China to end the practice of forced organ harvesting, and on the Department of State to prosecute those who engaged in it. Currently, 161 Congress members have sponsored this resolution. Among them are Representatives Rohrabacher, Waters, Brownley, Napolitano, Lowenthal, Hahn and McLeod from the Greater Los Angeles Area. The resolution is currently awaiting a mark-up from the Foreign Affairs Committee chaired by Rep. Ed Royce.
The primary victims of China's forced organ harvesting have been Falun Gong practitioners. For the past 14 years, Falun Gong practitioners have been brutally persecuted in China. Evidence indicates that the authorities have systematically subjected incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners to blood testing for tissue type, a procedural prerequisite for organ transplantation, and have largely ignored other inmates for such blood screening.
The practice of forced organ harvesting from live prisoners is also of specific concern to California, as UCLA has reported cases in which patients who returned from China with transplanted organs came in for follow-up treatments.
Several survivors of this persecution, who have escaped China and settled in Los Angeles, will be present at the press conference to testify about their horrific suffering, and available for interviews.
The press conference will be held on Tuesday, December 10 in front of the Consulate General of The People's Republic of China at 443 Shatto Place, Los Angeles, Calif. 90020 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
For more information about DAFOH, please visit www.dafoh.org.
Media contact: Dr. Dana Churchill, DAFOH Delegate for U.S West Coast
email: dana.churchill ( @ ) dafoh dot org phone: 310-339-2664
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