London [UK], December 17 (ANI): More than half one million folks worldwide have endorsed a petition urging the Group of Seven and different nations to take motion in opposition to the Chinese Communist authorities’s follow of extracting organs from prisoners of conscience, as reported by The Epoch Times (TET).
The petition, initiated by Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China in July 2024, has collected 505,970 signatures throughout 34 nations as of December 15.
The initiative goals to immediate the governments of the Group of Seven nations, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK, in addition to Argentina, Australia, India, Israel, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan, to take a stand in opposition to the Chinese regime’s pressured organ harvesting crimes.
These violations predominantly have an effect on prisoners of conscience, together with detained Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs and different ethnic and non secular minorities.
In the weeks main as much as the announcement, a whole lot of lawmakers worldwide dedicated to selling laws to ban pressured organ harvesting.
DAFOH stated the petition marketing campaign would proceed, with organisers now aiming for a million signatures by June 2026.
‘We current the problem of pressured organ harvesting on to sovereign governments to tell them in regards to the public’s demand to finish such dreadful transplant abuses in our civilised world, whereas additionally addressing it to the manager department, the decision-makers inside these governments,’ stated DAFOH Executive Director Dr Torsten Trey, as cited by The Epoch Times.
‘To witness this worldwide assist is encouraging. Not solely can we increase consciousness about China’s 25 years of persecution in opposition to Falun Gong, however we additionally create a platform for people to actively take part in ending it, one signature at a time.’
The petition highlights findings from the London-based China Tribunal, which concluded in 2019 that the Chinese regime has been concerned in large-scale pressured organ harvesting, predominantly concentrating on Falun Gong practitioners, in accordance with TET.
Trey famous that his organisation had beforehand performed a petition marketing campaign on the problem directed on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2012 to 2018, which attracted greater than three million members.
However, he stated the marketing campaign encountered ‘a posh community of guidelines and laws,’ and the United Nations in the end didn’t take any verifiable motion.
It took three months to determine the present petition marketing campaign, Trey stated, including that it might proceed no matter management modifications within the nations involved.
Given the speedy tempo of signature assortment, he expressed confidence that the marketing campaign might garner assist from thousands and thousands, in accordance with the TET report.
‘Every freedom-loving particular person and each individual of religion wishes to see this horrific and grotesque persecution, together with the pressured organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, come to an finish,’ Trey stated.
The petition calls on leaders of the 14 nations to situation a united assertion condemning the Chinese regime’s pressured organ harvesting, demanding its quick cessation, and to implement a coordinated motion plan.
According to the petition, the technique ought to embrace establishing measures to guard residents from receiving transplants in China, halting transplant-related partnerships, holding annual parliamentary hearings on the problem, and initiating investigations to pursue accountability, as outlined within the TET report. (ANI)