Working From Within: How Lawyers in China and Canada Collaborated to Uncover CCP's Organ Harvesting Atrocities

In 2006, Matas was pursuing an independent investigation into disturbing claims of the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience in China.

Working in concert with David Kilgour, former cabinet minister and Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, the pair hit a roadblock: they wanted to go to China to do the work but needed an invitation from a representative within China to proceed.

In his reply to Matas, Gao assured him that the risks of inviting the Canadians to investigate the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners was far outweighed by the ever-present danger of living under "An evil dictatorship system."

What Matas and Kilgour eventually found in their investigation, detailed in their 2006 report "Bloody Harvest," was evidence of state-sponsored illicit organ harvesting.

Falun Gong prisoners of conscience were being used as a living organ bank to supply China's lucrative organ transplant trade, they concluded.

Gao displayed exceptional heroism and put himself at great risk to help others, said Matas, but noted that there are countless other ways to help support victims of persecution in China like Falun Gong adherents, without danger.

Matas said Canada should require provinces to report all cases of transplant tourism and re-enact an existing bill that would make complicity in transplant abuse abroad an extraterritorial offence, while imposing an immigration ban on those complicit in organ transplant abuse.
 

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