China’s routine, standard, everyday practice of extracting kidneys, eyes, and hearts by force from Uyghurs, practitioners of Falun Gong and others often or almost always entails killing them. It’s not just a horrifying and maiming assault. It’s murder. And the Chinese government is eager to quicken the pace (“Fear of illegal organ harvesting spike after pledge to expand transplant hospital scheme,” Daily Star, July 4, 2025).
The plans, which were revealed via a government statement, claimed that six new transplant institutions are due to be built by the end of the decade, bringing the region’s total to nine, according to the Plan for the Establishment of Human Organ Transplant Hospitals in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (2024–2030)….
“This massive expansion in Xinjiang, a region already under scrutiny for systematic repression, raises deeply troubling questions about where the organs will come from,” said Dr. Wendy Rogers, Chair of the Advisory Board at the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China.
Experts warn that in a context of mass surveillance, forced labour, and widespread incarceration of ethnic minorities, the possibility of truly voluntary organ donation is effectively non-existent. Uyghur detainees have reported forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans while in custody—procedures consistent with organ compatibility testing.
“The concept of informed, voluntary consent is meaningless in Xinjiang’s carceral environment,” said David Matas, International human rights lawyer and investigator of forced organ harvesting in China….
Although the Chinese government claimed in 2015 that it had ceased using organs from executed prisoners, no legal reforms accompanied the announcement, and sourcing organs from prisoners of conscience was never explicitly banned.
The government of the People’s Republic of China is not supplying accurate or any statistics about these coercive surgeries and murders. In 2020, though, the China Tribunal estimated that as many as 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants were being carried out in China each year, which The Telegraph reports is “three times the number that [the Chinese government] reported to the international register.”
Sayragul Sauytbay, a Kazakh doctor who was previously detained in Xinjiang, has spoken publicly about camp-wide “health checks” where detainees had their blood tested and, depending on their results, were then sorted into groups.
She began to notice that those who were given a pink check mark would soon disappear, concluding it was because of “organ harvesting”.
While the decision to build the new facilities was made in December last year, the plans have only recently been made public by End Transplant Abuse in China, an Australia-based human rights charity.
Maya Mitalipova, a geneticist who has testified in Congress about the use of DNA testing in organ matching, says that in light of everything we know about what China has been doing, “independent scrutiny of this transplant expansion” is urgently necessary.
This is an understatement. The mass murder must stop. But the Chinese government disagrees, doesn’t acknowledge what it’s doing, and certainly won’t accept third-party, objective assessment of what it’s doing.
Also see:
International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China: “Planned Expansion of Transplant Facilities in Xinjiang Triggers Organ Harvesting Alarm”
StoptheCCP.org: “Killing to Order: China’s Thriving State-Sanctioned Industry of Forced Organ Harvesting”
