Don’t travel to communist China for organ transplants because these organs could be forcefully carved out from living individuals.
That’s the message from the Czech Republic’s deputy minister of health, Václav Pláteník, following a public hearing at the lower house of the Czech parliament, where lawmakers and rights advocates discussed how to end the persecution of Falun Gong in communist China.
Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline that combines meditative exercise with moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The faith group has faced relentless persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1999, which includes mass arrest, detention, torture, and other abuses. Its tens of millions of jailed practitioners have been a prime target of forced organ harvesting.
A petition in Czech demanding an end to the CCP’s persecutory campaign of belief system has gathered more than 50,000 signatures, triggering the session of the…
