IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 343 
Expressing concern regarding persistent and credible reports of systematic, 
state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of con-
science in the People’s Republic of China, including from large numbers 
of Falun Gong practitioners and members of other religious and ethnic 
minority groups. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 25, 2015 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. 
POE of Texas, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. 
FARR, and Mr. VALADAO) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing concern regarding persistent and credible reports 
of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from 
non-consenting prisoners of conscience in the People’s 
Republic of China, including from large numbers of 
Falun Gong practitioners and members of other religious 
and ethnic minority groups. 
Whereas when performed in accordance with ethical stand-
ards, the medical discipline of organ transplantation is 
one of the great achievements of modern medicine; 
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Whereas Chinese authorities reported in 2011 that the major-
ity of organs used for transplantation in China were pro-
cured from executed prisoners; 
Whereas voluntary and informed consent is the precondition 
for ethical organ donation and international medical or-
ganizations state that prisoners, deprived of their free-
dom, are not in the position to give free consent and that 
the practice of sourcing organs from prisoners is a viola-
tion of ethical guidelines in medicine; 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
and Communist Party of China continue to deny reports 
that many organs are taken without the consent of pris-
oners yet at the same time prevents independent 
verification of its transplant system; 
Whereas the organ transplantation system in China does not 
comply with the World Health Organization’s require-
ment of transparency and traceability in organ procure-
ment pathways; 
Whereas the United States Department of State Country Re-
port on Human Rights for China for 2013 stated, ‘‘Advo-
cacy groups continued to report instances of organ har-
vesting from prisoners’’; 
Whereas Huang Jiefu, director of the China Organ Donation 
Committee, announced in December 2014 that China 
would end the practice of organ harvesting from executed 
prisoners by January 1, 2015, but failed to address 
organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience; 
Whereas rates of voluntary organ donation in China remain 
severely depressed and are insufficient to account for the 
volume of organ transplant procedures performed; 
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Whereas Falun Gong, a spiritual practice involving meditative 
‘‘qigong’’ exercises and centered on the values of truthful-
ness, compassion, and tolerance, became immensely pop-
ular in the 1990s; 
Whereas in July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party 
launched an intensive, nationwide persecution designed to 
eradicate the spiritual practice of Falun Gong, reflecting 
the party’s long-standing intolerance of large independent 
civil society groups; 
Whereas since 1999, hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong 
practitioners have been detained extra-legally in reeduca-
tion-through-labor camps, detention centers, and prisons, 
where torture and abuse are routine; 
Whereas in many detention facilities and labor camps, Falun 
Gong prisoners of conscience comprise the majority of the 
population, and have been said to receive the longest sen-
tences and the worst treatment; 
Whereas former Falun Gong prisoners of conscience have re-
ported receiving targeted medical exams in detention de-
signed to assess the health of their organs, which other 
prisoner groups were generally not subjected to; 
Whereas Freedom House reported in 2015 that Falun Gong 
practitioners comprise the largest portion of prisoners of 
conscience in China, and face an elevated risk of dying 
or being killed in custody; 
Whereas in 2006, Canadian researchers David Matas, human 
rights attorney, and David Kilgour, former Canadian 
Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, conducted an inde-
pendent investigation into allegations of organ harvesting 
from Falun Gong prisoners in China, and concluded that 
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Falun Gong prisoners were the only plausible source for 
41,500 organ transplants performed from 2000 to 2005; 
Whereas their report found that agents of the Chinese state 
have conducted ‘‘large-scale organ seizures from unwilling 
Falun Gong practitioners’’, whose vital organs ‘‘were 
seized involuntarily for sale at high prices, sometimes to 
foreigners, who normally face long waits for voluntary do-
nations of such organs in their home countries’’; 
Whereas Matas and Kilgour have implicated state and party 
entities in illicit organ harvesting, including domestic se-
curity services and military hospitals; 
Whereas researcher and journalist Ethan Gutmann estimates 
that approximately 65,000 Falun Gong adherents may 
have been killed for their organs from 2000 to 2008, and 
that a number of other religious and ethnic minorities 
may also have been targeted; 
Whereas Gutmann published findings that Chinese security 
agencies began harvesting organs from members of the 
predominantly Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority group in 
the 1990s, including from Uyghur political prisoners; 
Whereas the United Nations Committee Against Torture and 
the Special Rapporteur on Torture have expressed con-
cern over the allegations of organ harvesting from Falun 
Gong prisoners, and have called on the Government of 
the People’s Republic of China to increase accountability 
and transparency in the organ transplant system and 
punish those responsible for abuses; and 
Whereas the killing of religious or political prisoners for the 
purpose of selling their organs for transplant is an egre-
gious and intolerable violation of the fundamental right 
to life: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the practice of state-sanctioned 
forced organ harvesting in the People’s Republic of 
China; 
(2) calls on the Government of the People’s Re-
public of China and Communist Party of China to 
immediately end the practice of organ harvesting 
from all prisoners of conscience; 
(3) demands an immediate end to the 16-year 
persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual practice by 
the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
and the Communist Party of China, and the imme-
diate release of all Falun Gong practitioners and 
other prisoners of conscience; 
(4) encourages the United States medical com-
munity to help raise awareness of unethical organ 
transplant practices in China; 
(5) calls on the People’s Republic of China to 
allow a credible, transparent, and independent inves-
tigation into organ transplant abuses; and 
(6) calls on the United States Department of 
State to conduct a more detailed analysis on state- 
sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting 
prisoners of conscience in the annual Human Rights 
Report, and report annually to Congress on the im-
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plementation of section 1182f of title 8, United 
States Code, barring provision of visas to Chinese 
and other nationals engaged in coerced organ or 
bodily tissue transplantation. 
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