By Li Muzi, Vision Times
Allegations that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has forcibly harvested organs from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience continue to surface with disturbing new details. In a recent interview, exiled Shanghai entrepreneur Hu Liren said the practice began more than two decades ago and was already systematized in Shanghai, complete with “pre-booking” groups, hospitals running daily transplant schedules, and special wards catering to foreign recipients.
Speaking to the independent media program “Weiyu Looks at the World,” Hu described how multiple Shanghai hospitals maintained steady organ supplies, largely sourced from Falun Gong practitioners, long before China acknowledged any formal donation system.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a meditation practice rooted in the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. Despite being peaceful in nature, the CCP has launched a brutal campaign to eradicate the practice since 1999. Thousands have since perished at the hands of Chinese police, with many adherents today still undergoing routine monitoring, arbitrary travel bans, and arrests.
Hu said that in 2000, while running internet companies in Shanghai, he hired a senior editor formerly with “Jiefang Daily” and “Wenhui Daily,” who told him: “In China, everything you see in Communist Party propaganda, you can only understand it by reading it in reverse.”
Hu added that public understanding of Falun Gong had long...
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