China Tribunal
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The China Tribunal is a non-governmental tribunal to inquire into forced organ harvesting in China.[1] It is headquartered in London. The chair of the China Tribunal is Sir Geoffrey Nice QC,[1] who had also been lead prosecutor at the trial of Slobodan Milošević in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.[2] Its other members include Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London Martin Elliott and historian Arthur Waldron.[1]
The tribunal was initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC).[3]
Relationship with other organizations
The China Tribunal was commissioned by the ETAC, of which "a minority of its committee members are Falun Gong practitioners",[4] but it states that it itself is independent from ETAC.[3]
According to the tribunal itself, "none of the members of the Tribunal, Counsel to the Tribunal, the editor or the volunteer lawyers working with Counsel to the Tribunal is a Falun Gong practitioner or has any special interest in Falun Gong".[4]
Events and history
In 2016, ETAC asked Geoffrey Nice to write an opinion about the issues that the tribunal was later to consider; Nice advised that a body of several people could be better to consider the facts and law, which eventually led to ETAC forming the China Tribunal.[5]
The China Tribunal held 5 days of public hearings in December 2018 and April 2019 in which over 50 fact witnesses, experts, and investigators testified.[6][7]
On 17 June 2019, the China Tribunal pronounced its "final judgment" on organ harvesting in China and declared the Chinese Communist Party guilty of Crimes Against Humanity. Stating that crimes against humanity had been committed beyond reasonable doubt against China's Uyghur Muslim and Falun Gong populations, and that cutting out the hearts and other organs from living victims constitutes one of the worst mass atrocities of this century.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
The tribunal's complete judgment was published on 1 March 2020.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Who we are". China Tribunal. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ "Profile: Geoffrey Nice". University of Buckingham. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ a b "About ETAC". China Tribunal. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Judgement, section 17" (PDF). China Tribunal. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ a b "China Tribunal Judgement" (PDF). China Tribunal. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Hurley, Richard (16 April 2019). "Evidence to contradict "substantial" forced organ harvesting from prisoners in China is lacking, tribunal hears". The BMJ. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Hearings". China Tribunal. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "Forced Organ Harvesting: "One of the worst mass atrocities of this century"". www.healtheuropa.eu. 29 January 2020.
- ^ "China Tribunal: Final judgement detailed, the hearings records, submissions etc". chinatribunal.com.
- ^ Nice, Geoffrey (2019). SHORT FORM of THE CHINA TRIBUNAL'S JUDGMENT (PDF). China Tribunal.
- ^ Iacobucci, Gareth (3 March 2020). "Chinese doctors admitted in undercover calls that harvested organs were available, informal tribunal finds". The BMJ. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ Elks, Sonia (17 June 2019). "China is harvesting organs from Falun Gong members, finds expert panel". Reuters. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ Smith, Saphora (18 June 2019). "China forcefully harvests organs from detainees, tribunal concludes". NBC News. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ Bowcott, Owen (17 June 2019). "China is harvesting organs from detainees, tribunal concludes". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 August 2020.