
‘Silence Is Not an Option’: Lawmakers Call for Reward Program to Fight Forced Organ Harvesting
WASHINGTON—Lawmakers leading a congressional panel on China are calling for the State Department to set up rewards seeking first-hand evidence to help hold accountable perpetrators of Beijing’s forced organ harvesting. Chairs of the bicameral Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), will write to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, requesting for funds to be set aside for disrupting and deterring the lucrative, and state-sponsored abuse, according to a letter The Epoch Times viewed before its release. Under the War Crimes Rewards Program, the State Department rewards up to $5 million to individuals with insights that result in the arrest, transfer, or conviction of foreign nationals accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, or war crimes....
