Lawmakers Want to Use the US Rewards Program to End the CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to seek firsthand evidence to help stop the illicit organ trade in China, where the communist regime is reportedly killing prisoners of conscience to sustain its transplant industry. “Forced organ harvesting is an atrocity and the disruption and deterrence of this practice should be a priority of the State Department,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, dated May 3, as reported by The Epoch Times in March before its release. The group—led by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), the chair, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC)—requested that Mr. Blinken use the State Department’s rewards programs to obtain firsthand evidence to hold those responsible for Beijing’s forced organ harvesting accountable....