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New book claims China is harvesting prisoners’ organs and selling them to foreigners

Jan Jekielek’s new book “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry & The True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary” (Skyhorse) starts with a ghoulish hypothetical: An American woman is in kidney failure. She begins the onerous process of getting on a transplant list, which can stretch on for years, as her health begins to deteriorate. She’ll likely be on painful dialysis or dead before a match comes through.

One day someone suggests the “China option” — i.e., bypassing the American healthcare system and getting one straight from the Middle Kingdom.

For $30,000 she can book an appointment (seemingly at her convenience), fly to Shanghai, check into the hospital, and come home two weeks later with a healthy, perfectly compatible kidney. No waiting lists, no health screenings, no questions asked.

It’s a seemingly happy, even miraculous, story — until one uncomfortable query is raised. Where did the kidney come from?

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Jekielek’s answer in this scenario: It would likely come from a Falun Gong prisoner. This prisoner would have no right to object. He or she would not even know it was occurring until they were on the operating table. And they would also not survive the procedure.

Could this really be happening? And could it be so widespread that any random foreigner with $30,000 — or as much as $180,000 — could procure their own kidney, or liver, or cornea, without anyone in China breaking much of a sweat? (Except, perhaps, the victim.)

Falun Gong, the Chinese spiritual movement best known in the US for its Shen Yun performing arts group, has long been at war with the Chinese Communist Party. Organ harvesting is the most serious accusation in the war between the two, and Jekielek, a senior editor at the Falun Gong media organization, The Epoch Times, is a stalwart warrior in the battle.

Organ extraction from condemned prisoners has been a documented phenomenon coming out of China for a while. Though the details remain disputed, Human Rights Watch was issuing reports about state........

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