Inner-West Weekly (Australia): Horrific trade in organs

May 4, 2006 Thursday

GRAVE concerns are held for Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned in China and at risk of being executed for their organs.

Thousands of Falun Gong devotees, including one of Burwood resident Dr Lucy Zhao's cousins, are held in camps which include underground detention centers.

In March, The Washington Times reported that a Chinese journalist had fled the country and told of ''organ harvesting'' from detention camps.

Dr Zhao said reports from The Times, The Toronto Sun and The Epoch Times show emerging news that detainees are being killed, their organs removed and their bodies burned.

''In Australia you wait several years for a liver or kidney transplant,'' Dr Zhao said.

''In China you wait only a week or two if you have money.

''I have even heard of Chinese hospitals ringing patients in other countries including Australia and offering them transplants for money.''

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