A report by some Canadian individuals alleging that China
"harvests organs from live Falun Gong prisoners" is based on rumors
and totally groundless, a diplomat from the Chinese embassy said in
Ottawa Wednesday.
The report, which was released early this month by a former
Canadian MP, David Kilgour, and human rights lawyer David Matas, is
based mostly on pre-existing information either collected from the
Internet or provided by Falun Gong practitioners in Canada, said
Zhang Weidong, spokesman for the embassy at a press conference.
So it is "biased and groundless," Zhang said.
The many apparent mistakes in the report, including the location
of Chinese cities, only call into question the truth of the report,
he said.
The spokesman said that China has adopted a very prudent and
responsible attitude on the issue of human organ transplant, having
consistently abided by the World Health Organization
principles.
China has issued a regulation on human organ transplants,
explicitly banning the sale of human organs and introducing a set
of medical standards for organ transplants in an effort to
guarantee medical safety and the health of patients, he said.
Zhang said that Falun Gong is an evil cult that preaches
supernatural power and has been trying to make troubles for the
Chinese government in foreign countries including Canada after
being banned in 1999.
Falun Gong practitioners are by far not the mainstream of
overseas Chinese, Zhang said. He called on the practitioners to
disengage from the cult and come back to normal life.
(Xinhua News Agency July 28, 2006)
