Chinese prisoners are still being killed for their organs, tribunal finds

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Chinese prisoners are still being killed for their organs, tribunal finds
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The independent tribunal heard evidence from medical experts, investigative journalists, human rights activists and members of the persecuted Falun Gong group.

Prisoners in China are still being killed for their organs, an independent tribunal concluded Monday.

Detained members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement are"probably [the] principal source of organs for forced organ harvesting," Sir Geoffrey Nice, who chaired the China Tribunal, told reporters in London Monday, according toThe country has long been accused of donating prisoners' organs without consent.

LISBON, PORTUGAL - JULY 12: Members of the Portuguese chapter of Falun Dafa, a spiritual practice banned in China since 1999, demonstrate outside Belem Palace against organ harvesting and the banning of their movement during the visit of the Chairman of China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhang Dejiang to the Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on July 12, 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal. Mr.

The tribunal, which held hearings in December 2018 and April of this year, examined evidence from medical experts, investigative journalists, Falun Gong experts and human rights activists, according to itsMembers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have been imprisoned since 1999,noted.

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