A former Chinese official is sounding alarm over the communist regime’s forced organ harvesting based on his own experience in China.
Du Wen, a former executive director of the Legal Advisory Office of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government, was wrongfully imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for 12 years before going abroad and settling in Belgium in 2023.
During his time in prison, Du learned first-hand that death-row prisoners have their organs collected before they die. He also encountered wealthy inmates who described how easy it is to obtain a matching organ, suggesting that hospitals are sourcing the organs from living people.
“I used to say, ‘Where is the evidence?’ Those are evidence!” Du said of the organ transplant advertisements that were seen outside major hospitals in Beijing.
“Every single advertisement is evidence. Every phone call is evidence: organs are being openly bought and sold,” he told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times on Dec. 16.
“[The ads say], ‘If your matching [organ] isn’t successful, just call this number, and we’ll match you.’ As long as you pay enough, they’ll grab a live person, harvest the organs, and sell them to you,” Du said.
“They have an entire organizational system, with doctors and everything… This is large-scale organ harvesting from living people.”
Over the past two decades, the main victims of forced organ harvesting have been practitioners of Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, an exercise meditation and spiritual practice based on the tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.
This year, the forced organ harvesting issue attracted increased attention, with the
first known survivor escaping to the United States and stepping forward.
