Question 13812 — human blood and organs

Summary

Ms. Corinne Vignon draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to suspicions of trafficking in organs taken from prisoners of conscience in China. According to three international reports (Kilgour/Matas in 2008, Gutman in 2015, Kilgour/Matas/Gutman in 2016) this practice targets not only Falun Gong practitioners but also religious minorities such as Christians, Muslim Uighurs, as well as political minority groups, which would serve to fuel organ transplant tourism. Several transplant applicants in France have also disappeared from the list of organ applicants listed on the biomedicine agency's website, without having died. This raises the question of the existence of an illicit organ donation sector. In China, the practice of organ harvesting after execution began in the mid-1980s. Human rights associations have always believed that executed prisoners were the main source of organs intended for transplantation. However, the number of these does not explain the colossal increase in the number of transplants observed since 1999. The number of transplant centers in China, for example, increased from 150 to 600 between 1999 and 2006. Based on these elements, on December 12, 2013, the European Parliament adopted a first resolution against forced organ harvesting in China, recommending that member states publicly condemn organ harvesting abuses. In addition to this resolution in 2016, Parliament adopted the Written Declaration (WD 48) which asks each member country of the Union to act against these practices. Although China says having banned in 2015 the harvesting of organs from those sentenced to death without their prior consent, questions remain as to the reality of the transplant figures announced by the Chinese regime, which would mask the continuation of large-scale organ harvesting from non-consenting donors. Thus, she asks him to kindly indicate to her what France's action was to ensure that these patients do not become complicit in unethical organ harvesting, and to clarify its position regarding the ratification by France of the Council of Europe convention against organ trafficking, known as the Compostela Convention.

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