State Department Highlights Communist China’s Forced Organ Harvesting in Annual Report

The U.S. State Department called out China’s communist regime over reports of forced organ harvesting in its latest submission on human trafficking. The 2024 report, released on June 24, placed China among 13 nations as “Tier 3” countries, meaning that governments had a documented “policy or pattern” of human trafficking. For the Chinese regime, in particular, the report said it “has been accused of systematically forcibly removing organs from political prisoners.” “Forced organ harvesting in China appears to be targeting specific ethnic, linguistic, or religious minorities held in detention, often without being explained the reasons for arrest or given arrest warrants, at different locations,” the report reads, quoting from a joint statement from by a group of United Nations human rights experts in 2021....