Ethan Gutmann

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Ethan Gutmann (left) during a press conference of the foreign press association, 2009

Ethan Gutmann ( Chinese 伊森葛特曼 ; born September 13, 1958 ) is an American China analyst , human rights defender , writer and investigative journalist . He was a fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies , the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation and Visiting Fellow at the Project for the New American Century . During his stay in China he advised US politicians on the "new China".

Gutmann's treatises on China have been widely published. His contributions to online publications go back at least to 1999. He himself published two books on China. Gutmann lives in London with his wife and son .

He testified several times as a witness before the US Congress , the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress, the European Parliament , the United Nations and other parliaments .

In February 2017 Gutmann was nominated for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to uncovering China's state-organized organ harvesting .

Career

Gutmann graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Masters Degree in International Affairs . During the 1980s he was a foreign policy analyst for the Brookings Institution , a Washington, DC business, foreign policy and governance think tank . In the 1990s he headed the documentary series "American Investigator" as principal investigator for the AV Network .

In 1998 Gutmann went to Beijing and worked for a Chinese documentary TV station and a public affairs consultancy for 3 years . His job was to familiarize US politicians with the "new China" through carefully selected travel tours. This gave him insider knowledge of China himself. In 2001 Gutmann returned to the USA.

Ethan Gutmann has published extensive articles on a variety of China topics in well-known newspapers such as The Weekly Standard , Investor's Business Daily, The Asian Wall Street Journal, World Affairs Journal, National Review and others. Among other things, he wrote about how American companies established and maintained their relations with Beijing, data theft by means of computer hacking by Chinese secret services , the human rights situation in China, and the strategic and tactical development of the Chinese military.

Gutmann's research into China's internet surveillance , China's laogai system (labor camp), the Chinese security regulations imposed on Western companies, and the human rights situation in China led to hearings at government and secret service levels in Washington, DC, London and Brussels .

Book "Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal"

Gutmann's first book was published in May 2004 with the title “Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal”, which contains a “carefully documented account of a commercial world without moral values ​​or limits”. It states that American companies such as Cisco , Sun Microsystems , Yahoo! and Microsoft provided Chinese authorities with sophisticated technologies that could monitor, clean and eventually isolate the Chinese Internet. This is said to have created the world's largest internet surveillance system. The book explains why and how US companies are said to have helped replace the democratic aspirations in China with the pursuit of wealth and oppression.

The American journalist Jay Nordlinger wrote of Gutmann's book that "it reports on the dirty relationship between American business and the Chinese Communist Party". “Our business people come to meet the communists and turn a blind eye to the persecution. Sometimes they even support the persecution, for example when Cisco and other technology companies developed special methods of monitoring and arresting Falun Gong practitioners. "

Evidence of the activities of Cisco was made available to the public in Gutmann's book.

Gutmann's declaration on the "Golden Shield" project

Before 1999, Falun Gong practitioners did not systematically use the Internet as a means of organization and communication. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, practitioners were isolated, dispersed, and looking for ways to organize and change the government's persecution policy. So they went online, used code words, avoided detailed descriptions and communicated in short sequences. However, like a cat eavesdropping on a mouse, the 610 Office was able to pinpoint its exact whereabouts, thanks to a joint venture between the Shandong Provincial State Security Bureau and Cisco Systems to develop search and espionage skills. The result of this collaboration was an extensive database of personal information about people, including the 610 Office Falun Gong lists and a comprehensive surveillance system that was quickly distributed to other provinces. The Chinese authorities called it the " Golden Shield Project ". Hao Fengjun, a former 610 Office worker who used the surveillance system on a daily basis, described the Golden Shield project regarding practicing Falun Gong practitioners: "Golden Shield also includes the ability to monitor online chat services and e-mail. It identifies IP addresses and all previous communications a person has. This enables conclusions to be drawn about the location of the person, because a person will normally use the computer at home or at work. ”The arrest then takes place.

In 2011, two independent lawsuits were filed in US federal courts against Cisco Systems alleging that its technology enabled the Chinese government to monitor, arrest, and kill Chinese citizens based on their views and beliefs.

Organ trade in China

In 2006, allegations surfaced that large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners were murdered to meet the needs of the Chinese organ transplant industry. The allegations were followed by an investigation by former Canadian Secretary of State and Attorney General David Kilgour PC and Canadian human rights attorney David Matas . The Kilgour-Matas Investigation Report published that "the source of 41,500 transplants in the six-year period 2000-2005 is unclear," and both believed that "there were and still are large numbers of forcible organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners ".

Gutmann took up this topic and carried out his own research, which he published in several articles since 2006. In 2012, “State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China” published an essay by Gutmann in addition to essays by six physicians and David Matas .

Gutmann's explanation of the "third rail of journalism"

In 2012, Gutmann stated at a hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives on "Organ harvesting from political and religious dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party " that there was a long-standing taboo within the journalism community about Falun Gong and the crime Organ harvesting admitted: "Touching this topic is the 'third rail of journalism'. If you touch this issue - if you are in Beijing, if you are based in China - you will no longer get access to the executive floor. I can give you an example of this. I had a friend who wrote for the South China Morning Post . He wrote a very powerful article on Falun Gong's history before the persecution. The South China Morning Post has been banned and the online version has been banned in China for six months. It did so at a time when the South China Morning Post was desperately trying to penetrate the market. This practice is common. And there are many other dangers to journalists who dare to do so, and I believe these extend beyond borders. "

Organ Harvesting as a Political Career Opportunity

In 2013 Gutmann declared at a symposium in Vienna that organ harvesting was a political career option in communist China. In his remarks, he showed the relationships between the organ harvesting hospitals and Chinese politics and was able to explain chains of command up to Bo Xilai , a former top politician in China. Gutmann called the Bo Xilai scandal, published in the western media about the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood by Bo's wife, a red herring , a deception designed to distract attention from far greater crimes.

Body worlds

In the same year, Gutmann attracted public attention when he and practitioners from the Falun Gong meditation school demanded DNA tests be performed on Gunther von Hagens ' plastinated exhibits of his body worlds , as there was suspicion that prisoners of conscience from China were used for this purpose could be.

Book "The Slaughter: Mass Murders, Organ Harvesting and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem"

On August 12, 2014, Ethan Gutmann published his second book "The Slaughter" (German about Das Gemetzel ), which was already in the investigation report "Bloody Harvest" (German Bloody Harvest ) of the former Canadian State Secretary and Public Prosecutor David Kilgour PC and the immigration attorney David Matas state-organized organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China. The book is the inside story of China's organ trafficking and its macabre association with detention centers and execution sites for arrested dissidents , especially those who support Falun Gong.

Gutmann's new book was written over a period of seven years. It is based on over 100 interviews with former high-ranking State Security agents, labor camp personnel, former prisoners of conscience in Chinese labor camps and prisons, and Chinese doctors who killed prisoners on the operating table or had experience of China's transplant practices.

Gutmann describes his "journey to the dissident archipelago of Falun Gong, Tibetans , Uyghurs and house Christians as the uncovering of a timeless drama of resistance, the elicitation of confessions, incredible betrayal and moments of ecstatic redemption". Jay Nordlinger, editor-in-chief of the National Review , called the book "the next atomic bomb".

Based on his investigations, Gutmann concluded that a total of 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners were killed for their organs between 2000 and 2008 and that between 450,000 and one million Falung Gong practitioners were detained during that time.

In an interview with the Toronto Star in October 2014, Gutmann no longer restricted the time frame to the period 2000–2008 and noted that “the number of victims is approaching 100,000”.

Controversy in the 2014 Taipei mayoral election

During the 2014 mayoral election for Taipei , there was controversy over statements about mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je in Gutmann's book "The Slaughter," which was published that year. Gutmann then stated that he had not said that Ko was involved in the organ trafficking and that he may have been misinterpreted. On November 27, 2014 Gutmann published a legal statement through his lawyer Clive Ansley, stating that “no English-speaking reader has understood even for a moment that Dr. Ko was active as an organ dealer "and" Mr. Gutmann believes - and we think his book also proves this - that Dr. Ko have acted honorably ”.

On November 29, 2014, Dr. Ko the choice. A complete explanation including the current e-mail correspondence in which Dr. Ko released the story for publication, was made available by Gutmann in December 2014.

Kilgour-Matas-Gutmann investigation report

On June 22, 2016, Ethan Gutmann published together with David Kilgour and David Matas the jointly prepared investigation report "Bloody Harvest / The Slaughter - An Update" . The 680-page report is a forensic analysis of over 2,300 Chinese documents and website information and comes to the conclusion that the real number of organ transplants in China is kept secret by the Chinese government (the report assumes 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants annually) that the organs for the high number of organ transplants identified come from killed innocent Uyghurs, Tibetans, domestic Christians and mainly Falun Gong practitioners, and that organ harvesting is a crime in China involving the Communist Party, government institutions, the health system, hospitals and Transplant professionals are involved.

Ethan Gutmann compares China's transplant system to a giant flywheel that apparently cannot be stopped: “I don't think it's all about profit; I believe that it is about ideology, mass murder and the cover-up of a horrific crime that can only be prevented from being exposed by continuing to kill everyone who knows about it. "

Awards and honors

Ethan Gutmann

  • received the Spirit of Tiananmen Award,
  • was listed in the New York Sun under Book of the Year ,
  • received the Chan's Journalism Award for excellent writing and
  • was nominated for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize in February 2017.

Lectures and statements by Gutmann at hearings

  • China's Policies Toward Spiritual Movements , Congressional-Executive Commission on China, June 18, 2010.
  • Organ Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party , United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, September 12, 2012.
  • Hearings in the British Parliament, April 29, 2013 June 24, 2013 and June 28, 2016.
  • Symposium in Vienna on lucrative organ harvesting in China, July 15, 2013.
  • The Anatomy of Mass Murder, Congressional-Executive Commission on China , September 2015.
  • U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing, June 22, 2016.
  • Hearing in the EU Parliament on China's transplant abuse, June 29, 2016.

Publications

Books

  • Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire, and Betrayal . Encounter Books, May 1, 2004, ISBN 978-1893554832 .
  • The Slaughter: Mass Murders, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem (2014) . GoodSpirit Verlag, March 9, 2015, ISBN 978-3862391059 .

items

Further collections of articles by Ethan Gutmann

Documentation

Gutmann appeared in

Related Links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Duin: Chinese accused of vast trade in organs. The Washington Times, April 27, 2010, accessed August 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Biographical data on Ethan Gutmann. US Congress, June 23, 2016, accessed August 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The visiting fellow is supposed to promote and advance basic research as well as applied research at the inviting institute as a "guest colleague".
  4. ^ A b c d Ethan Gutmann: Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire, and Betrayal. Encounter Books, accessed August 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Jamie Glazov: Aiding the Policenet. (No longer available online.) FrontPageMag.com, February 8, 2006, archived from the original on August 22, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.frontpagemag.com
  6. ↑ a b c d Barbara Turnbull: Q&A: Author and analyst Ethan Gutmann discusses China's illegal organ trade. The Toronto Star, October 21, 2014, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Ethan Gutmann. The Weekly Standard, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  8. ^ Ethan Gutmann: A Tale of the New China. The Weekly Standard, May 24, 1999, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  9. ^ A b "China's Policies Toward Spiritual Movements". Congressional-Executive Commission on China, June 18, 2010, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  10. ^ A b c Ethan Gutmann: Organ Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party. (No longer available online.) House Foreign Affairs Committee, archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov, September 12, 2012, archived from the original January 10, 2013 ; accessed on January 28, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov
  11. ^ A b Ethan Gutmann, Gabriel Danovitch, Damon Noto, Charles Lee: Organ Harvesting of Religious and Political Dissidents by the Chinese Communist Party. (No longer available online.) Testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov, September 12, 2012, archived from the original January 10, 2013 ; accessed on January 28, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov
  12. ↑ a b Hearing in the EU Parliament on China's transplant abuse. Epoch Times, June 29, 2016, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  13. ↑ a b Ethan Gutmann at the John Humphrey Center for Peace and Human Rights. (No longer available online.) JHC October 12, 2014, archived from the original on August 8, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jhcentre.org
  14. ↑ a b ETHAN GUTMANN RECEIVES NOMINATION FOR THE 2017 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE , End Organ Pillaging, February 27, 2017, accessed on March 2, 2017.
  15. ^ A b Jack Phillips, Nancy McDonnell, Investigator of China's State Organ Harvesting Nominated for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize , Epoch Times, March 1, 2017, accessed March 2, 2017.
  16. ↑ Ethan Gutmann: biographical data. ethan-gutmann.com, accessed on August 16, 2016 (English).
  17. ↑ a b Jay Nordlinger: Face The Slaughter: The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, by Ethan Gutmann. National Review, August 25, 2014, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  18. ^ John Markoff: Suit Claims Cisco Helped China Pursue Falun Gong. New York Times, May 22, 2011, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Ethan Gutmann: Hacker Nation: China's Cyber ​​Assault. (No longer available online.) World Affairs Journal, 2010, archived from the original on December 24, 2016 ; accessed on February 4, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldaffairsjournal.org
  20. ↑ Deji Olukotun: Human Rights Verdict Could Affect Cisco in China. Global Voices Online, April 24, 2013, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  21. ↑ David Kilgour, David Matas: Bloody Harvest - Investigation Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China. organharvestinvestigation.net, July 6, 2006, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Ethan Gutmann: Why Wang Wenyi Was Shouting. The Weekly Standard, May 8, 2006, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Ethan Gutmann: China's Gruesome Organ Harvest. The Weekly Standard, November 24, 2008, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Ethan Gutmann: Bitter Harvest: China's 'Organ Donation' Nightmare. (No longer available online.) World Affairs Journal, 2012, archived from the original on March 23, 2015 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldaffairsjournal.org
  25. ↑ Professor Dr. med. Gabriel Danovitch article. US National Library of Medicine, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Professor Arthur Caplan's article. US National Library of Medicine, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Dr. med. Jacob Lavee Article. In: US National Library of Medicine. Accessed August 16, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Dr. med. Ghazali Ahmad article. US National Library of Medicine, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Dr. med. Torsten Trey article. US National Library of Medicine, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  30. ↑ Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh Article. US National Library of Medicine, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  31. ^ "State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China". 3sat, accessed on August 16, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Rebeca Kuropatwa: New Matas book Reveals transplant abuse. (Memento of April 2, 2015 on the Internet Archive), Jewish Tribune (Canada), September 19, 2012, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 .
  33. ↑ Mark Colvin: Parliament to hear evidence of transplant abuse in China. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, November 27, 2012, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  34. ^ Matthew Robertson: Book Exposes Organized Killing for Organs in China. The Epoch Times, August 31, 2012, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  35. ↑ David Matas, Dr. Torsten Trey, State Organs: Transplant Abuse in China, Goodspirit Verlag, ISBN 978-3862391110
  36. ↑ An unimaginable horror - a historical symposium in Vienna on lucrative organ harvesting in China. (No longer available online.) Transplantation-und-menschenrechte.ch, July 15, 2012, archived from the original on August 24, 2016 ; accessed on August 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transplantation-und-menschenrechte.ch
  37. ↑ DNA test for “body worlds” required. Vienna ORF, June 12, 2013, accessed on August 17, 2016 .
  38. ↑ “Body Worlds” exhibition: DNA test for preparations required. Vienna Online, July 12, 2013, accessed on August 17, 2016 .
  39. ↑ Bloody Harvest - Investigation Report by David Matas and David Kilgour. Accessed August 17, 2016 .
  40. ↑ a b Ethan Gutmann, The Slaughter: Mass Murders, Organ Harvesting and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, GoodSpirit Verlag, ISBN 978-3862391059 , Average number of Falun Gong practitioners in the Laogai system: low estimate 450,000, high estimate 1 million. P. 320; Most conservative estimate of the number of Falun Gong practitioners murdered for their organs in the period 2000-2008: 65,000. P. 322
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  42. ↑ Viv Young: The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem. New York Journal of Books, August 11, 2014, accessed August 17, 2016 .
  43. ↑ Julia Duin: Chinese accused of vast trade in organs. The Washington Times, April 27, 2010, accessed August 17, 2016 .
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personal data
SURNAME Gutmann, Ethan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 伊森葛特曼 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American investigative journalist, China analyst
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1958