Investigation report on organ harvesting from Vice 
presidend of EP

ORGAN HARVESTING IN CHINA
Hearsay evidence taken at a meeting with two Falun Gong=
 practitioners, Mr. Niu Jinping
and Mr. Cao Dong, Beijing, China on 21 May 2006
Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott MEP, Vice-President of the European=
 Parliament and
designated rapporteur for the EU's new Democracy and Human Rights=
 Instrument
conducted the meeting with his assistant, Miss Jennifer Forrest.=
 Also present were Mr.
Steve Gigliotti, Mr. Cao Dong (aged 36), Mr. Niu Jinping (aged=
 52), his 2 and a half year
old daughter and an interpreter. The meeting took place in a=
 small anonymous hotel in an
attempt to safeguard the welfare of the practitioners.
Mr McMillan-Scott explained that he had come to China to=
 investigate the persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners, in particular to find out more about=
 allegations of organ
harvesting. The meeting was filmed by Jennifer Forrest. The backs=
 of the two
practitioners were filmed and the face of Niu Jinping who had no=
 concerns about being
identified from the tape. The interpreter remained out of shot=
 (he was arrested after the
meeting and interrogated for 7 hours. Following his arrest he was=
 ordered by the police
not to contact the US embassy or the media).
Cao Dong told McMillan-Scott that he began to practice Falun Gong=
 in 1995, before the
persecution started. He was attracted to Falun Gong because of=
 its peaceful principles and
the subsequent health benefits. He claims a recurrent eye problem=
 was cured by the
practice of Falun Gong. He explained that he had been married for=
 4 years. 9 days after
his wedding, his wife (Ms. Yang Xiaojing) was arrested for=
 practising Falun Gong. She
was in jail for two years. 1 week after she was released, he was=
 arrested. 1 year later he
was released and she was again arrested. In four years of=
 marriage they had only been
together for three weeks. In the labour camp, Cao Dong was forced=
 to watch video tapes
slandering Falun Gong for hours at a time, suffered sleep=
 deprivation and was force-fed
by the police. His wife would tell a similar tale.
Cao Dong is currently unemployed, unable to secure a job because=
 he practices Falun
Gong. He had previously been a tour guide and recounted the lies=
 the regime had insisted
he tell to tourists about Tiananmen Square etc.
In the labour camp he was instructed to manufacture jade=
 jewellery for export to Europe
and was forced to work long hours in terrible conditions. He said=
 that out of 2,000
prisoners, 100 were Falun Gong. They were held 30 to 40 prisoners=
 to a small cell.
He gave details of his arrest. He said he was put in a special=
 section of the jail reserved
for Falun Gong practitioners and Tibetan Buddhists. The treatment=
 of Falun Gong and
Tibetan Buddhist prisoners was far worse than that of other=
 prisoners. The other inmates
were specifically told by the police to monitor them and to=
 deprive them of sleep. The
police frequently tried to get practitioners to sign repentance=
 statements renouncing their
belief in Falun Gong. In this same jail, there were also=
 dissidents which had been arrested
during the student incident at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Edward McMillan-Scott enquired whether he was aware of any organ=
 harvesting camps
in China. He said he definitely knew of them and knew people who=
 had been sent to them.
He had seen the cadaver of one of his friends, a Falun Gong=
 practitioner, with holes in his
body where the organs had been removed.
McMillan-Scott asked if the practitioners were in danger by=
 meeting him. Both
practitioners said yes. McMillan-Scott gave them each his=
 business card and told them
that if they ran into any problems after the meeting to call him=
 so that he could offer some
assistance.
Niu Jinping's wife is in jail. She was still breastfeeding at the=
 time of her arrest. She has
been repeatedly tortured and is victim to relentless brainwashing=
 techniques. She is often
beaten for more than 20 hours at a time to force her to denounce=
 Falun Gong. As a result
she is now deaf. He showed McMillan-Scott a map pinpointing the=
 location of the camp
she is in. He also has a receipt for 100,000 RMB which he paid=
 for his wife's release
from the labor camp. He also showed him an appeal letter he had=
 written to the police for
the unlawful arrest of his wife.
He described in detail the torture methods his wife has had to=
 endure - being tied to a
wooden bench for hours in a contorted position, sleep=
 deprivation, being suspended for
many hours from the ceiling with a rope around her neck and her=
 toes only just in contact
with the ground.
Niu Jinping had seen his wife for ten minutes in four months;=
 sometimes he was told he
could visit her after the visiting day.
He also showed us burns he suffered from electric batons whilst=
 in prison and recounted
his time spent in a mental hospital following accusations that he=
 was insane. He was
forced to take a strong concoction of medication. With the help=
 of one doctor who
believed that he was not insane, he was finally released.
Niu Jinping is also unemployed. In China the police must sign a=
 document stating that
you are fit for work for an employer to be able to take you on.=
 Practising Falun Gong is
considered by the regime to render you unfit for work and they=
 therefore refuse to issue
this document to practitioners. As a result he has been forced to=
 sell his home and live off
the money he received from the sale. He said he was luckier than=
 many of his fellow
practitioners who did not have a home to sell and were left with=
 nothing to live on since
in many cases their personal assets were taken by the police.
Talking about Tiananmen Square and the anniversary on June 4, Niu=
 and Cao explained
that they and other Falun Gong practitioners are routinely=
 rounded up before any national
holidays in China and interrogated by the police. McMillan-Scott=
 asked Niu Jinping
whether there was anything seditious about Falun Gong. He replied=
 no.