UK Government Alleged to Have Asked BBC Not to Air Segment on Organ Harvesting in China

Falun Gong practitioners in Vienna, Austria, stage a demonstration of organ harvesting of imprisoned practitioners in China during a protest against importing of human organs from China to Austria on Oct. 1, 2018. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images

The UK government may have been involved in canceling a BBC programme about forced organ harvesting in China, it was alleged on Wednesday.

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, chair of the China Tribunal—an independent people’s tribunal into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China—said during a webinar that the UK government “walked into the BBC and asked them not to show” the programme.