ligions’’. On May 12, 2021, Yu Hui, a former Office 
Director of this group, was targeted for sanctions by 
the United States Government. 
(8) Reports, such as those mentioned in this 
legislation, suggest that China’s organ transplan-
tation system does not comply with the majority of 
the World Health Organization’s Guiding Principles 
on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation, 
insofar as organs are said to be primarily sourced 
from prisoners without voluntary consent, organs are 
reported to be traded for payment, the level of trans-
parency and traceability in the organ procurement 
process is low, and the Chinese Communist Party 
has prevented independent or impartial inspection, 
scrutiny and verification of its transplant system. 
(9) On June 14, 2021, a joint statement by 
United Nations human rights experts expressed ex-
treme alarm over ‘‘reports of alleged ‘organ har-
vesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong 
practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and 
Christians in detention in China’’. 
(10) Based on independent research and official 
statistics, it is clear that many organ transplants 
conducted in the PRC do not meet internationally 
accepted ethical standards. 
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(11) Freedom House in its Freedom in the 
World 2021 report entry on China stated that ‘‘The 
government claims it has ended the transplantation 
of organs from executed prisoners. However, the 
scale of the transplantation industry and the speed 
with which some organs are procured far exceed 
what is feasible via the country’s nascent voluntary 
donation system and there is growing international 
attention to possible crimes against humanity in con-
nection with the practice.’’. 
(12) A 2019 forensic statistical analysis of 
organ donation data in the PRC, published in the 
BMC Medical Ethics journal, concluded the fol-
lowing: ‘‘China’s apparent systematic falsification of 
national organ donation data severely undermines 
the good faith efforts being made to integrate China 
into the international transplantation community.’’. 
(13) The United States had approximately 145 
million registered organ donors in 2019: 19,257 per-
sons donated their organs, resulting in 39,719 trans-
plants; the ratio of actual donors to registered do-
nors is approximately 0.00013. Similar ratios are 
observed in the United Kingdom, Canada and other 
countries. By contrast, the PRC claimed to have 
more than 900,000 registered organ donors by early 
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2019; data from China also indicates 5,818 organ 
donors and 19,454 transplants in 2019, resulting in 
a ratio of actual donors to registered donors of 
0.0057. Although this comparison does not control 
for other possible variables, the fact that China’s 
nascent organ donation program yielded 44 times 
more organ donors from its organ donation pool 
than that of the United States in 2019 merits inter-
national scrutiny. 
(14) Credible evidence suggests that Falun 
Gong practitioners are subject to widespread forced 
organ harvesting and are specifically targeted for 
this barbaric practice. 
(15) In January of 2007, Canadian human 
rights attorney David Matas and former Canadian 
Secretary of State for the Asia Pacific region David 
Kilgour published findings confirming the likelihood 
that forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practi-
tioners was occurring in China. They also concluded 
that there was no evidence of a voluntary donation 
system in the PRC at the time and that, in spite of 
this, the Chinese Government reported a dramatic 
escalation in its organ transplantation infrastructure 
(a three-fold increase) between 1999 and 2004, par-
allel to the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong. 
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(16) In 2016, Matas, Kilgour, and investigative 
journalist Ethan Gutmann published an exhaustive 
report concluding that it is likely that between 
60,000 and 100,000 organ transplants had been 
conducted per year since 2000, and that Falun Gong 
practitioners are the main source of organs for 
transplant in China. 
(17) In its annual report for 2020, the Con-
gressional-Executive Commission on China ref-
erenced reports raising concerns about the PRC fal-
sifying organ donation data, casting additional doubt 
on the CCP’s claim to have ended forced organ har-
vesting. 
(18) On March 1, 2020, the Independent Tri-
bunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners 
of Conscience in China, an investigative entity 
known as a people’s tribunal commissioned by the 
International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in 
China, composed of relevant legal, cultural, and 
medical experts and led by Sir Geoffrey Nice, re-
leased its final judgment, including— 
(A) very large numbers of transplant oper-
ations have been carried out in the PRC. The 
Tribunal assessed as credible the numbers of 
operations being between 60,000 and 90,000 
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annually in the years 2000 to 2014. The num-
ber of eligible registered donors was reportedly 
5,146 in 2017, leaving an incomprehensible 
gap; 
(B) ‘‘Forced organ harvesting has been 
committed for years throughout China on a sig-
nificant scale and that Falun Gong practi-
tioners have been one—and probably the 
main—source of organ supply’’; 
(C) ‘‘Falun Gong practitioners in detention 
were systematically subjected to blood tests and 
organ examinations’’ while other prisoners were 
not tested, suggesting that Falun Gong practi-
tioners were specifically selected or targeted for 
these medical examinations; and 
(D) ‘‘. . . the PRC and its leaders actively 
incited the persecution, the imprisonment, mur-
der, torture and the humiliation of Falun Gong 
practitioners with the sole purpose of elimi-
nating the practice of, and belief in, the value 
of Falun Gong.’’. 
(19) The international nongovernmental organi-
zation Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting 
presented a petition with over three million signa-
tures collected worldwide between 2012 to 2018 to 
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the United Nations High Commissioner for Human 
Rights, calling for an investigation into forced organ 
harvesting of Falun Gong that went unheeded. 
(20) In June 2016, the House of Representa-
tives passed its fifth resolution condemning China’s 
persecution of Falun Gong with H. Res. 343 114, 
‘‘Expressing concern regarding persistent and cred-
ible 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’’ and calling for an end to the ‘‘eradication’’ 
campaign of Falun Gong and forced organ har-
vesting. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) killing a human being through involuntary 
organ extraction is an egregious violation of uni-
versal standards of medical ethics and is in direct 
contradiction of basic standards of human decency; 
(2) the forced harvesting of organs violates Ar-
ticle 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human 
Rights, which states that ‘‘Everyone has the right to 
life, liberty and security of person.’’, and Article 4, 
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which states that ‘‘No one shall be held in slavery 
or servitude.’’; 
(3) the United Nations Human Rights Council 
should issue a formal condemnation of the People’s 
Republic of China (PRC) for its persecution of 
Falun Gong; 
(4) any collaboration with or participation in 
the PRC’s organ transplant system by the United 
States Government or a United States person or or-
ganization presents serious ethical challenges that 
would jeopardize the integrity of the United States 
organ transplantation system; and 
(5) the Chinese Communist Party’s state-spon-
sored persecution of Falun Gong must come to an 
immediate end. 
SEC. 4. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to— 
(1) avoid any cooperation with the PRC in the 
organ transplantation field while the Chinese Com-
munist Party remains in power; 
(2) take appropriate measures, including using 
relevant sanctions authorities, to coerce the Chinese 
Communist Party to end any state-sponsored organ 
harvesting campaign; and 
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(3) work with allies, partners, and multilateral 
institutions to highlight China’s persecution of 
Falun Gong and coordinate closely with the inter-
national community on targeted sanctions and visa 
restrictions. 
SEC. 5. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO 
FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING WITHIN THE 
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. 
(a) IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.—The President shall 
impose the sanctions described in subsection (c) with re-
spect to each foreign person included in the most recent 
list submitted pursuant to subsection (b). 
(b) LIST OF PERSONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
President shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a list of foreign persons, including 
senior government officials, military leaders, and 
other persons who the President determines are 
knowingly responsible for or complicit in, or have di-
rectly or indirectly engaged in, the involuntary har-
vesting of organs within the People’s Republic of 
China. 
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(2) UPDATES OF LISTS.—The President shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
an updated list under paragraph (1)— 
(A) as new information becomes available; 
(B) not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act; and 
(C) annually thereafter for five years. 
(3) FORM.—The list required by paragraph (1) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may in-
clude a classified annex. 
(c) SANCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-
scribed in this subsection are the following: 
(1) BLOCKING OF PROPERTY.—The President 
shall exercise all of the powers granted to the Presi-
dent by the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (except that 
the requirements of section 202 of such Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701) shall not apply) to the extent nec-
essary to block and prohibit all transactions in prop-
erty and interests in property of the person if such 
property and interests in property are in the United 
States, come within the United States, or are or 
come within the possession or control of a United 
States person. 
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(2) INADMISSIBILITY
OF
CERTAIN
INDIVID-
UALS.— 
(A) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS, ADMISSION, 
OR PAROLE.—A foreign person included in the 
most recent list submitted pursuant to sub-
section (b) is— 
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 
(ii) ineligible to receive a visa or other 
documentation to enter the United States; 
and 
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
or paroled into the United States or to re-
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
seq.). 
(B) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.—A foreign 
person described in subparagraph (A) is also 
subject to the following: 
(i) Revocation of any visa or other 
entry documentation regardless of when 
the visa or other entry documentation is or 
was issued. 
(ii) A revocation under clause (i) shall 
take effect immediately and automatically 
cancel any other valid visa or entry docu-
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