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The Sujiatun Thrombosis Hospital is a public hospital located in the Sujiatun district of Shenyang, in northeast China.

The hospital became the subject of allegations in March 2006 when the Falun Gong-affiliated journal The Epoch Times published allegations that it was the location of a "concentration camp where Falun Gong practitioners had their organs forcibly removed". The government of the People's Republic of China denied the allegations, and investigations by the United States Department of State and human rights activist Harry Wu did not find evidence to support them.

Organ-harvesting allegations

In March 2006, the Falun Gong affiliated Epoch Times reported an unidentified Chinese journalist claiming that he had discovered a secret underground prison beneath the hospital; he claimed that as many as 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were being held for organ harvesting.

Amnesty International stated that the claims could be neither confirmed nor denied, and Tom Treasure of Guy's Hospital found the allegations "plausible, from a medical standpoint". Independent reports by unaffiliated organizations generally agreed that there was no evidence of live organ harvesting at Sujiatun. Harry Wu, known vocal critic of the Chinese government and its human rights record, also expressed doubts about the existence of a concentration camp at Sujiatun, stating that the evidence was insubstantial, the supposed eyewitness accounts inconsistent, the facilities at Sujiatun not amenable to such a large-scale operation, and the anonymous witnesses not credible. The United States Department of State dismissed claims of there being a "concentration camp" at Sujiatun, According to a report by the United States Congressional Research Service, U.S. officials investigated the facility twice and found no evidence that it was being used for organ harvesting or detaining prisoners. As the hospital is a joint venture with a company associated with the Malaysian government, Malay officials also visited the clinic and found it to be a hospital, not a concentration camp.

The organ harvesting allegations were examined in detail in an independent report released by David Kilgour and David Matas, released originally in July 2006 and revised in 2007. In March 2007, U.N. special rapporteur Manfred Nowak said, "The chain of evidence they are documenting shows a coherent picture that causes concern." In November 2008, the United Nations Committee Against Torture cited Nowak's note that an increase in organ transplant operations coincides with "the beginning of the persecution of ". The Committee stated that it is concerned with the information that Falun Gong practitioners "have been extensively subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and that some of them have been used for organ transplants." See the main article.

References

1. Gertz, Bill (24 March 2006). "China harvesting inmates' organs, journalist says". Washington Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
2. Ji Da (17 March 2006). "New Witness Confirms Existence of Chinese Concentration Camp, Says Organs Removed from Live Victims". The Epoch Times. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
3. Nordlinger, Jay (30 March 2006). "A Place Called Sujiatun". National Review. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
4. ^ Lum, Thomas (11 August 2006). "China and Falun Gong" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. p. 10. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
5. Treasure, Tom (March 2007). "The Falun Gong, organ transplantation, the holocaust and ourselves". JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE. 100: 119–121.
6. Wu, Harry (8 June 2006). "Statement of Harry Wu about Sujiatun issue". Retrieved 2008-10-21. {{cite web}}: Text "Observechina.net" ignored (help)
7. "U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alleged Concentration Camp in China Repression of Falun Gong". Washington File. 16 April 2006. Retrieved 2008-10-21. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
8. "CLINICAL TRIAL PROPOSAL: A multi-center, open label trial to demonstrate the clinical effectiveness and safety of combined Traditional Chinese and Modern medicines in patients with recent stroke" (PDF). Clinical Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur Hospital. 15 January 2005.
9. An Interview with U.N. Special Rapporteur on Organ Harvesting in China
10. United Nations Committee Against Torture, CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE CONVENTION: Concluding observations of the Committee against Torture, Forty-first session, Geneva, 3-21 November 2008

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