Original sentence: " In November 2008, the United Nations Committee Against Torture cited Nowak's note that an increase in organ transplant operations coincides with "the beginning of the persecution of [Falun Gong practitioners]"." See the main article.In March 2007, U.The Committee stated that it is concerned with the information that Falun Gong practitioners "have been extensively subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and that some of them have been used for organ transplants.The organ harvesting allegations were examined in detail in an independent report released by David Kilgour and David Matas, released originally in July 2006 and revised in 2007.special rapporteur Manfred Nowak said, "The chain of evidence they [Kilgour and Matas] are documenting shows a coherent picture that causes concern