Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

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The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (Engl .: Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG)) is an international non-governmental organization on 5 April 2006 by the Falun Dafa Association in Washington DC was founded. The organization also has offices in Canada .

In 2006, CIPFG asked former Canadian Secretary of State and Attorney General David Kilgour PC and Canadian immigration and human rights attorney David Matas to investigate allegations of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China . In the Kilgour-Matas investigation report , which was submitted to the United Nations and subsequently to other governments in July 2006 , the investigators concluded that “the Chinese government and its authorities in many parts of the country, particularly in the hospitals, but also in Detention Centers and People's Courts that have killed large but unknown numbers of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience since 1999 ”.

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Human rights torch relay protesters; the banner reads: "Human rights violations cannot coexist with the Beijing Olympics"

In December 2006, the Australian government responded to the CIPFG's revamped petition alleging unethical organ transplants in China by abolishing Chinese organ transplant training programs in the Prince Charles and Princess Alexandra hospitals . It also ended joint organ transplant research programs with China.

Boycott of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing

One of the runners of the human rights torch relay

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong organized the international global human rights torch relay in 2007 , which took place in 150 cities in 35 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. With the human rights torch relay, CIPFG supported the boycott of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , which EU politicians such as the Vice-President of the European Parliament Edward McMillan-Scott , Parliament President Hans-Gert Pöttering , Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Foreign Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner wanted to support.

The torch relay began in Athens on August 9, 2007, a year before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. According to the CIPFG, the role of the human rights torch relay was to inform the public about human rights violations in the People's Republic of China , particularly the persecution of Falun Gong . A number of well-known figures participated in the human rights torch relay , such as Chen Kai, a former member of the national basketball team in China.

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  1. ↑ David Matas, China's Bloody Harvest: Waiting times for organ transplants in China are a matter of days. Everywhere else waiting times are measured in years , National Post (Canada) on Minghui, August 24, 2006, accessed August 23, 2017
  2. ^ Thomas Lum, CRS Report for Congress # RL33437. China and Falun Gong (PDF), Congressional Research Service, p. CRS-7, Paragraph 3, May 25, 2006, accessed August 23, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Canadian report implicates China in organ harvesting , Agence-France-Presse, Taipei Times, July 8, 2006, accessed August 23, 2017
  4. ↑ a b David Kilgour, David Matas, An Independent Investigation into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China (in 22 languages), organharvestinvestigation.net, July 6, 2006, updated January 31, 2007, accessed August 23, 2017
  5. ↑ David Kilgour, David Matas, "Bloody Harvest - Investigation Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China" (revised and expanded version November 2007) , accessed August 23, 2017
  6. ↑ China's Pre-emptive Public Relations , Stratfor, November 18, 2006, accessed August 23, 2017
  7. ^ Hospitals ban Chinese surgeon training , The Sydney Morning Herald, December 5, 2006, accessed August 23, 2017
  8. ↑ Wakas To Bring Human Rights Torch Into Nelson , Press Release: CIPFG, Scoop Independent News, December 26, 2007, accessed August 23, 2017
  9. ↑ Alanah May Eriksen, Human rights marchers want Olympic boycott , New Zealand Herald, December 17, 2007, accessed August 23, 2017
  10. ↑ City rally hears student's tale of torture, imprisonment in China , The Calgary Herald, May 20, 2008, accessed August 23, 2017
  11. ↑ Apaak Clement, Human Rights Torch Comes to Vancouver , Media With Conscience News, May 20th 2008, accessed on August 23, 2017
  12. ↑ Christa Hillstrom, Activists carry torch to protest human-rights violations in China , Medill Reports Chicago, May 14, 2008, accessed August 23, 2017