The Kilgour–Matas report is a 2006/2007 investigative report into allegations of live organ harvesting in China conducted by Canadian MP David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas. The report w
David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific), investigated the state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in China.
In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party initiated an ongoing campaign to eliminate the new religious movement Falun Gong in China, maintaining a doctrine of state atheism. It is characterized by a multif
Kilgour–Matas report
…millions. In July 1999, following a large-scale demonstration to request official recognition, Chinese authorities initiated a nationwide campaign to suppress the group, and created the 610 Office to oversee and coordinate the elimination of Falun Gong. The suppression that followed was accompanied by what Amnesty…
Then-member of the United States House of Representatives, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who co-sponsored a congressional resolution condemning organ harvesting from Falun Gong adherents, speaks at a rally in Washington, D.C.
Morning Falun Dafa exercises in Guangzhou. The banner reads "Falun Dafa Free-Teaching Exercise Site". Falun Gong's popularity worried senior officials of the CCP.
Falun Gong practitioners at Tiananmen Square appealing for an end to persecution
Falun Gong books are destroyed following announcement of the ban in 1999.