Forced Organ Harvesting
What is Forced Organ Harvesting?
In several countries, but most notably China, organs are being harvested from political dissidents and religious minorities. Practitioners of Falun Gong, Uighur Muslims, and house church Christians are forced to undergo blood and tissue typing when they are arrested. Their organs are put on the market for transplant tourists who come to China from all over the world. These organ tourists arrive ready for a scheduled surgery on the date that the political prisoner is scheduled to be executed. The method of that execution is unknown, but there are a limited number of ways it could be carried out while preserving the organs of the "donor", and this is deeply troubling to consider. Unfortunately, Squid Games organ harvesting is happening in real life, and some American insurance companies fully participate, with Chinese transplant tourism as a covered benefit, even though this practice is outlawed in many other countries throughout Europe.
International Action
In November 2024, Taiwan charged surgeon Chen Yao-li and four other individuals with illegally brokering organ transplants in China, the first indictment since the island amended its Human Organ Transplant Act in 2015. While these issues are finally gaining awareness and are being acknowledged in the courts, there is still so much much more work to be done.
Organ Tourism Crackdowns
So far, five US states (Texas, Utah, Arizona, Tennessee, and Idaho) have passed legislation prohibiting those states' insurance companies from paying for organ transplants originating in China. Please consider writing your representatives about enacting a similar law in your state.
The US House of Representatives has passed two bills (HR 1154 and HR 4132) which would sanction anyone involved in forced organ harvesting. However, the Senate version (S 761) is stalled in the Foreign Relations Committee.
Image from ZeroHedge's article: Japan's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Organ Trafficking Shines Light on Forced Organ Harvesting
Please remember that while horrifying, the Chinese people are suffering the most due to this practice and should not be blamed for their government's atrocities. Most of the organs come from peaceful practitioners of religions not tolerated by the Chinese government, and they deserve respect and protection. The policies of the government are the source of the ethical issue, and not the Chinese people living under oppression.
Human Harvest
"In the early 2000s doctors around the world began to notice large numbers of their patients flying to China for organ transplants. An organ was typically ready within a week. The availability and number of organs was baffling, until horrific stories began to leak out. It was rumoured that hospitals were harvesting live Falun Gong practitioners for their organs. Reports from the inside confirm China’s unimaginable harvesting of human-beings."
For more information on forced organ harvesting, we highly recommend the documentary "Human Harvest" from Journeyman Pictures and Flying Cloud Productions, directed by Leon Lee.
The Bleeding Edge
Director Leon Lee and Flying Cloud Productions have taken the facts from their documentary, Human Harvest, and portrayed them in this feature film about the forced organ harvesting of political prisoners in Communist China.
This film is difficult to watch, but is recommended by Dr. Klessig as an introduction to forced organ harvesting currently going on in the CCP
Additional Reading
These authors investigated the forced organ harvesting in China and wrote what they found. These books are tough to read, but the scope of the problem is staggering, and awareness supports change
Jan Jekielek
A crime the Chinese regime can no longer deny—Forced Organ Harvesting.
What if everything you need to understand about the Chinese Communist Party—and how the free world should respond to it—could be explained through this one issue?
In this urgent and eye-opening book, journalist Jan Jekielek distills decades of investigations from reputable sources, combined with his own research and in-depth firsthand insight, into a compelling case for rethinking our approach to the CCP. Through the lens of grave human rights abuses—most disturbingly, the state-sanctioned harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience—Jekielek exposes the inner workings of a regime built on deception, coercion, and control. Killed to Order: The Organ Harvesting Industry of China and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary reveals why continuing to misunderstand the CCP poses a growing threat to global freedom.
©2026 Jan Jekielek (P)2026 Skyhorse Audio
Ethan Gutmann
What is The Xinjiang Procedure? [Shin - Jong]
Xinjiang refers to the northwest of China where the Uyghur people, Muslims with Turkic roots, have lived for thousands of years. The procedure refers to Chinese transplant surgeons surgically extracting Uyghur organs while their hearts are still beating, average age, 28 years old.
From 2015 on, the World Health Organization and the Transplantation Society asserted this was fiction. China of a different time. Then came the medical testing of any Uyghur above the age of 12. Ten million blood and DNA tests. And the camps filled the desert...