- UPDATED: JFW urges the EU and human rights organizations to speak out about the persecution of Falun Gong (International Press Release)

UPDATED: JFW urges the EU and human rights organizations to speak out about the persecution of Falun Gong (International Press Release)

International Press Release by Justice For The World (JFW) • Human Rights Awareness Foundation

"Falun Gong are a peaceable, spiritual group who have never harmed anybody. Tragically they are to the Beijing regime what the Jews were to the Nazis - an internal enemy." ~ Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice-President of the European Parliament.

A few months after The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution urging the Chinese Communist Party to end its decade-long campaign against Falun Gong and expressing solidarity with victims of persecution in China, the US-based human rights organization Human Rights Watch advised the European Union to set guidelines for human rights improvements with the Chinese government during this week's EU-China human rights dialogue in Madrid. While giving specific examples that deserve international attention, Human Rights Watch however notably refrained from mentioning one issue in particular, namely the persecution of Falun Gong at the hands of the Chinese government, which, according to Justice for the World, should be deemed the world's number one concern, since this persecution is a persecution of and a threat to human conscience worldwide.

Here is why.

The persecution of Falun Gong in China started in 1999 and has over the years taken on an inhumane form, whereby organs from its practitioners are being taken without consent, killing the legitimate owners of the organs in the process. The organs are sold afterwards and can due to its increasingly secretive nature of the persecution, be spread through legal channels in the world. This much is also known to the governments of the European Union and to the leading human rights organizations, who have addressed this sensitive issue only on occasion.

The above description may not fully hit home on the first read, since it is almost incomprehensible that this is actually happening, and it is furthermore just one example of the many terrible faces of the persecution.

It is honorable that a human rights organization such as Human Rights Watch advices for the European Union to start and speak out on sensitive issues to the Chinese government, but it needs to examine its own choice to remain silent on this particular issue most of the time, as do other leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International.

Justice for the World advices the European Union and the world's leading human rights organizations, who have investigated this matter, to start and speak out boldly on this excruciating matter, and, as far as these organizations go, to set a good example to the European Union, and not to do exactly the same as what they criticize the European Union for.

It is time that the world puts on the pressure on the Chinese Communist Party in order to, for once and for all, end this persecution, which is a shame to a human kind that promotes human rights.

We once said before and we wish repeat it now: "Do not ask the victims of persecution why they are being persecuted, ask the world why it has not stopped!"

Note to Editors

Independent and extensive research is available on organharvestinvestigation.net. For more information about this issue, please also read its press release United Nations calls on China to prosecute organ harvesters, which contains contact details.