Chinese Transplant Congress Criticized Inside China

Perhaps anticipating opposition from the Chinese people, the Chinese National Transplant Congress was held in a strangely low-key atmosphere, with relevant information only publicly available at the last minute.
Chinese Transplant Congress Criticized Inside China
Australian MP Craig Kelly, Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh from Sydney University, and Senator John Madigan (L-R) join 400 Falun Gong Practitioners at the July 20 Commemoration Rally in front of Australian Parliament House on July 16, 2014. Minghui.org
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The Chinese National Transplant Congress was held in a strangely low-key atmosphere, with relevant information only publicly available at the last minute. In the lead up to the conference, the location was changed to the city of Hangzhou and the date pushed back to Oct. 30. 

In the weeks prior to the conference, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong released two consecutive reports on the CCP’s live organ harvesting atrocities. 

The World Organization reported that the former Health Minister of the General Logistics Department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) personally confirmed that former Chinese Communist Party head Jiang Zemin ordered live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, and the Central Military Commission discussed organ harvesting among themselves. 

The disclosure of this new evidence shocked the public in China that was able to access the news. Some Chinese people even directly protested the Congress, saying that they believed many of the participants are in fact butchers and executioners dressed in white coats.

The opening session was subdued, and some of the speakers’ information wasn’t available. 

The agenda and other related information were published on the Chinese National Transplant Congress’s webpage on Oct. 30—the first day of the conference. According to the agenda, among the 10 speakers in the opening session, only 7 physicians’ names were available, and the names of the other 3 were not disclosed. 

Falun Gong practitioners march in a parade down the streets in Hong Kong to protest China's National Day on Oct. 1, 2014. (Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times)
Falun Gong practitioners march in a parade down the streets in Hong Kong to protest China's National Day on Oct. 1, 2014. Benjamin Chasteen/Epoch Times