New Evidence of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting and a Proposed US Response

- 2:00 p.m. In-Person Event Register for Event Speakers: Nina Shea Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom Nina Shea is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute. Full Bio Congressman Chris Smith United States Representative, Fourth District of New Jersey, Co-chair, Congressional Executive Commission on China Ethan Gutmann Author, The Xinjiang Project and The Slaughter Share: Share to Twitter Twitter Share to Facebook Facebook Share to LinkedIn LinkedIn In 2020, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially determined that China was committing genocide against the Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim communities. A new book, The Xinjiang Procedure, reports that, in addition to torture, gang rape, and involuntary sterilization and abortion, forced organ harvesting on an industrial scale is a heinous feature of this genocide. For these reports about forced organ harvesting, its author Ethan Gutmann drove under cover to the Central Asian border region with China where he secretly interviewed former detainees of Xinjiang’s notorious concentration camps, where over a million, mostly Uyghurs, were detained. China’s organ transplant sector surged over the past twenty-five years, with the critical support of Western medical transplant training, joint research, technology, grants, and fellowships. Hundreds of Chinese transplant surgeons have been trained in American medical schools despite mounting reports of China’s forced organ harvesting and a failure to verify Beijing’s claims of a solely voluntary organ donor supply. To curb this, last year the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed HR 1503, the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, which is now awaiting Senate consideration. Join Nina Shea in a discussion with Ethan Gutmann and Congressman Chris Smith, the author of the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting bill. Related Events See More See More Related Research See More See More