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New book claims China is harvesting prisoners’ organs and selling them to foreigners

Nypost · 🇨🇳 public China · · 1345 words · By Max Gross
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What to know about New book claims China is harvesting prisoners’ organs and selling them to foreigners

New book claims China is harvesting prisoners’ organs and selling them to foreigners Jan Jekielek’s new book “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry & The True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary” (Skyhorse) starts with a ghoulish hypothetical:…

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New book claims China is harvesting prisoners’ organs and selling them to foreigners Jan Jekielek’s new book “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry & The True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary” (Skyhorse) starts with a ghoulish hypothetical:…

Why it matters

She begins the onerous process of getting on a transplant list, which can stretch on for years, as her health begins to deteriorate.

Common ground

She’ll likely be on painful dialysis or dead before a match comes through.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Dr. Jacob Lavee’s patient scheduled a heart transplant in China, implying the availability of such procedures.”
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No evidence found in web searches or Wikipedia to confirm Dr. Jacob Lavee's patient's actions or transplant availability.
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Claim 2: “China is harvesting prisoners’ organs and selling them to foreigners.”
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Multiple independent web sources (Epoch Times, tribunal report, CECC) report allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners in China. These claims are corroborated by cross-referenced international tribunal findings.
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web search NEUTRAL — Allegations of forcedorganharvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and otherprisonersin the People's Republic ofChinahave raised concern within the international community. Initial reports oforganharv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_F…
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web search NEUTRAL — China'sharvesting of detainees'organsserves a booming transplant trade that is worth some $1 billion a year, according to an international tribunal.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests…
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web search NEUTRAL — In his opening statement, CECC Chair Smith said, "forcedorganharvesting on an industrial scale inChinais an atrocity unmatched in its wickedness. The numbers of those executed for their organs—some ev…
http://cecc.gov/media-center/press-releases/hearing-examines…
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Claim 3: “A 2019 international conference called the China Tribunal concluded that forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners still occurs in China.”
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Wikipedia confirms the China Tribunal was established to examine forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong. This aligns with the claim's assertion about the tribunal's conclusion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Allegations of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners in the People's Republic of China have raised concern within the international community. Initial reports of or…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_F…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The China Tribunal was an independent non-governmental "people's tribunal" established to examine allegations of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in the People's Republic of China …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Tribunal
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a new religious movement founded by Li Hongzhi in China in the early 1990s. Falun Gong has its global headquarters in Dragon Springs, a 173-hectare (427-acre) co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
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Claim 4: “China promised in 2014 to stop using executed prisoners’ organs without their consent or their next of kin’s consent.”
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No web results or Wikipedia entries directly mention China's 2014 pledge. Evidence for 2014 in China and general country information does not confirm the specific claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 14th year of the 3rd millennium and the 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Events in the year 2014 in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_in_China
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the second-most populous country after India, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, representing 17% of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
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Claim 5: “Cheng Pei Ming was sentenced to prison in 2002 and escaped in 2006.”
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No evidence found in web searches or Wikipedia to confirm Cheng Pei Ming's imprisonment or escape details.
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Claim 6: “Organ extraction from condemned prisoners in China has been documented by Human Rights Watch since the 1990s.”
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) is cited as having documented reliance on executed prisoners for organ transplants. Wikipedia entries confirm HRW's role as an authoritative reference, supporting the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a nonprofit watchdog group headquartered in New York City. The organization was founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, whose purpose was to monitor the Soviet Union's complianc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Human Rights in China (simplified Chinese: 中国人权; traditional Chinese: 中國人權; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénquán) is a New York-based international, non-governmental organization (NGO) that addresses human rights…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_in_China_(organiz…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Human rights in the People's Republic of China are severely curtailed. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and workers' rights are restricted by the Chine…
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Claim 7: “Falun Gong prisoners are a source of organs for transplants in China.”
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Web sources confirm allegations of Falun Gong prisoners being a source of organs, but also note dissenters citing inconsistencies and Chinese government denials. Contradictory evidence from different sources leads to disputed verdict.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dissenters have cited the allegations' inconsistency with other data, rejection by lawyers representing FalunGongpractitioners, and implausibility of the numbers. [13] The Chinese government has denie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_F…
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web search NEUTRAL — The answers to these questions are extremely distressing.Chinauses incarceratedprisonersof conscience as an organ donor poolto provide compatibletransplantsfor patients. Theseprisonersor “donors” are …
https://theconversation.com/killing-prisoners-for-transplant…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 18, 2019 ·China's harvesting of detainees'organsserves a booming transplant trade that is worth some $1 billion a year, according to an international tribunal.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests…
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Claim 8: “The U.S. Congress passed the Falun Gong Protection Act, which accuses China of forced organ harvesting.”
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No evidence found in web searches or Wikipedia to confirm the Falun Gong Protection Act's passage or its allegations.
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Claim 9: “Transplant volumes in China did not decrease after 2015, according to Jekielek.”
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No evidence found in web searches or Wikipedia to confirm Jekielek's claims about transplant volumes post-2015.
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Claim 10: “Cheng Pei Ming, a Falun Gong practitioner, claims he had part of his liver and lung removed during detention in China.”
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No evidence found in web searches or Wikipedia to confirm Cheng Pei Ming's claims or his detention history.
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