A Chinese organ-harvesting victim managed to escape from his captors after he woke up chained to a bed with parts of his liver and lung missing.
Cheng Pei Ming, 58, the first known survivor of China’s forced organ harvesting campaign against religious prisoners said he was now ready to speak out and expose the ‘evil’ of the Chinese Communist Party.
Cheng, who will talk publicly for the first time in Washington on Friday, August 9, described how he still feels ‘extreme pain’ 20 years after parts of his lung and liver were forcibly removed.
WHAT CHENG SAID
‘I believed they would kill me. I’m not sure they thought I could survive, but I did,’ Mr Cheng told The Telegraph as he took off his shirt to expose a scar that wraps around his chest all the way to his back.
Mr Cheng says he was detained and tortured for years by the Chinese state for practising Falun Gong, a spiritual movement founded in the early 1990s.
The movement swept across the country, but was outlawed in 1999 and then brutally suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who branded it an “evil cult” and a threat to the state.
Beijing has long viewed religious groups as a threat to social order and the party’s ideological grip on power.
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In the decades after the Falun Gong was banned and its followers persecuted, China’s organ transplantation industry exploded. Vital organs became readily available within a matter of days in state-run hospitals.
In 2019, an independent tribunal in London ruled that the Chinese government continued to commit crimes against humanity by targeting minorities, including the Falun Gong movement, for organ harvesting.
The CCP has denied accusations of organ harvesting and repeatedly denied that Falun Gong practitioners have been killed for their organs.
