The UN Committee Against Torture Report on China (21 November 2008)

The UN Committee Against Torture reported after reviewing submissions from 19 NGOs, including the Conscience Foundation. Its concerns: torture, deaths in custody, organ harvesting, black jails, harassed lawyers, failure to prosecute violence and more.

A Summary of the Report (extracts):

10.Regarding Falun Gong, the Special Rapporteur on Torture’s observation that an increase in organ transplant operations coincided with “the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners” and his request for “a full explanation of the source of organ transplants.”

11.Information received that Falun Gong practitioners have been extensively subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and that some of them have been used for organ transplants.

The Committee made specific recommendations that the Chinese regime should investigate and/or change all of the above.

The report in its entirety can be read at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CHN.CO.4.pdf



Полностью отчет Комитета ООН против пыток можно прочесть здесь: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CHN.CO.4.pdf