Yahoo! Accused of Lying to Congress about Chinese Journalist 122
verybadradio writes "The House Committee on Foreign Affairs is calling Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang to a hearing on 6 November to explain why the company lied to Congress in early 2006 about its knowledge of the investigation into Chinese journalist Shi Tao."
Re:pot.kettle.black (Score:3, Informative)
Although involuntary organ donations are illegal under Chinese law, critics say Beijing does not enforce the policy. In 2001, a Chinese doctor applying for political asylum revealed that he had removed organs from executed prisoners for the transplant market under the auspices of the People's Liberation Army. He claimed that he had operated to remove skin and corneas from executed criminals, and that other doctors sometimes took organs from bodies while their hearts were still beating.[79]
On 9 March 2006, allegations were made of organ harvesting on living Falun Gong practitioners at the China Traditional Medicine Thrombosis Treatment Center, Sujiatun in Shenyang, a joint-venture with Malaysian healthcare company Country Heights Health Sanctuary and subject to oversight in Liaoning province.
According to two witnesses interviewed by The Epoch Times, internal organs of living Falun Gong practitioners have been harvested and sold to the black market, and the bodies were cremated in the hospital's boiler room. They also claim some six thousand practitioners have been held captive at the hospital since 2001, two-thirds of whom have died to date. Removed organs include hearts, kidneys, livers and cornea. The witnesses alleged nobody came out alive.
The Chinese Government accused Falun Gong of fabricating the "Sujiatun concentration camp" issue, reiterating that as a WHO Member State, China resolutely abides by the WHO 1991 Guiding Principles on Human Organ Transplants and strictly forbids the sale of human organs. It added that Sujiatun District government carried out an investigation at the hospital and invited local and foreign media, including NHK and Phoenix Satellite Network; and two visits were paid by US consular personnel, who confirmed that the hospital was completely incapable of housing more than 6,000 persons; there was no basement for incarcerating practitioners; there was simply no way to cremate corpses in secret, continuously, and in large volumes in the hospital's boiler/furnace room.
In July 2006, human rights lawyers David Kilgour and David Matas, concluded an investigation in response to a request by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of the Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), a U.S.-based, front organization of the Falun Dafa Association.[80] Their 69-page report[81] gave credence to the allegations of China's harvesting organs from live Falun Gong practitioners.[82][19]The Christian Science Monitor states that the report's evidence is circumstantial, but persuasive.[83] Kilgour said. "Our findings are shocking. To us, this is a form of evil we have yet to see on this planet."[19]
Might want to take up the insane exaggeration argument with the CSM, not me.