(Minghui.org) The documentary film State Organs, Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China that exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners was screened in Taiwan in October 2024. The organizers and various cinemas continued to receive threatening letters for a month. The Kaohsiung City Council, the Chiayi County Council, the Changhua County Council, and the Taipei City Council, which supported the screening, all received threatening letters.
On November 27, 2024, the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Legislative Yuan invited the National Security Bureau, the Mainland Affairs Council, the Ministry of Culture and other units to make a special report on “China’s long-arm jurisdiction strategy over Taiwan from the difficulties of screening State Organs in Taiwan, and our response plan” and prepare to answer questions.
Charlies Weimers, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), publicly spoke out in support of Taiwan and condemned the CCP’s forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. Boris Mijatović, a member of the German Parliament’s Human Rights Committee and the human rights spokesman for the German Greens in the German Parliament, also spoke out in support.
MEP Recommends the Documentary
Charlies Wilmers MEP held a poster that reads “Reject CCP oppression, stand with Taiwan” on December 12, 2024. He emphasized in a public statement, “One of the most reprehensible practices in the world today is the CCP’s live organ harvesting. China, that is, the People’s Republic of China, imprisons prisoners of conscience, imprisoning them for years and preventing them from having any contact with their families. This is a vivid example [referring to the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners Ding Yuande and his wife].”
Charlies Wilmers MEP holds a poster that reads “Reject CCP oppression, stand with Taiwan.”
He also made a public appeal in his statement: “It is time for us to speak out and demand the release of prisoners of conscience in China. It is time for us to do everything we can to stop the CCP’s crime of live organ harvesting. I recommend to everyone: Watch the documentary State Organs and visit the website stateorgans.com to watch and learn about the cruel facts happening in the People’s Republic of China.”
Video: Charlies Wilmers MEP holds a poster that reads “Reject CCP oppression, stand with Taiwan.”
The CCP Threatens Freedom and Democracy
On December 17, Boris Mijatović, a member of the German Parliament’s Human Rights Committee and spokesperson for the human rights affairs of the Green Party in the German Parliament, held a poster that reads: “Reject CCP oppression, stand with Taiwan.” He called on the international community to condemn the CCP’s suppression of Taiwan’s freedom and democracy and to urge the CCP to immediately stop its transnational suppression and espionage activities against Falun Gong practitioners overseas.
Boris Mijatović, a member of the German Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, holds a poster that reads “Reject CCP oppression, stand with Taiwan.”
The European Parliament Passed Several Resolutions Calling for Sanctions Against Those Responsible for the Persecution
The European Parliament passed resolutions condemning the CCP’s forced organ harvesting in 2013 and 2022 and passed a written statement condemning the CCP’s live organ harvesting in 2016.
On January 18, 2014, the European Parliament passed an urgent resolution on the CCP’s continued persecution of Falun Gong. The resolution states, in part: “Since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party has engaged in systematic persecution to eradicate the Falun Gong religious movement,” and “practitioners are frequently detained and reportedly subjected to torture, psychological abuse, and organ harvesting so that they renounce their faith.”
The resolution calls on the EU and its member states to publicly condemn the CCP’s live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience, and to use the EU’s global human rights sanctions system and corresponding national sanctions systems to sanction all criminals and entities involved in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China and overseas. The resolution also proposes that the EU’s measures should include denial of visas, the freezing of assets, expulsion from EU territory, criminal prosecutions (including criminal prosecutions based on extraterritorial jurisdiction), and criminal charges based on international law.
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