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On April 5, 2006, the Falun Dafa Association established the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), a lobby group established in the United States of America, also having offices in Canada In 2006, the organization issued a controversial report authored by former Canadian Secretary of State for the Asia-Pacific region David Kilgour and attorney David Matas alleging hospitals and jails throughout China for being involved in organ harvesting.
The organization sponsors the international Global Human Rights Torch Relay that travels through 150 cities in 35 countries of Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia to support a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. . Mattas has argued that "it is unthinkable under the Olympic Charter that the same government torturing people in one part of Beijing could be hosting the Olympic Games in another part of the same city". The head of the Canadian branch of the CIPFG is Rabbi Dr. Reuven Bulka, leader of the Congregation Machzikei Hadas, who has publicly called for Israel to put pressure on the Chinese government to cease organ harvesting by quitting the Olympic Games .
- Thomas Lum, Congressional Research Report #RL33437, page CRS-7 paragraph 3, Congressional Research Service, August 11 2006