{"id":253,"date":"2018-07-15T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/?page_id=253"},"modified":"2020-04-21T01:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:01:05","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"STOP the Organ Harvesting and Persecution against FALUN GONG Practitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Falun Gong<\/strong> (also known as <strong>Falun Dafa<\/strong>) is a peaceful spiritual discipline of exercises and meditation based on the universal values of Truth, Compassion and Tolerance, practised in over 100 countries.\u00a0Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.falundafa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.falundafa.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Falun Gong quickly became extremely popular after it was made public in 1992. By 1999 100 million people were practising in China and the practice was so widespread it caused the then leader Jiang Zemin to launch an illegal campaign to \u201cdestroy Falun Gong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since July 20th 1999, the persecution has continued with over 100 torture methods described by those who have survived, including the alleged harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners sold for profit to organ tourists.<\/p>\n<p>In London, an independent people&#8217;s tribunal announced its findings on June 17, 2019, that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China for many years and that this brutality still continues today.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC who previously led the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, stated, \u201cForced organ harvesting has been committed for years, and Falun Gong practitioners have been one\u2014and probably the main\u2014source of organ supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite condemnation from human rights advocates and governments, the persecution is now in its 21st year. Please sign the petition to the UK government asking them to pressure the Chinese Communist Party to stop this persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for helping to make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) is a peaceful spiritual discipline of exercises and meditation based on the universal values of Truth, Compassion and Tolerance, practised in over 100 countries.\u00a0Find out more at www.falundafa.org Falun Gong quickly became extremely popular after it was made public in 1992. By 1999 100 million people were practising &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;STOP the Organ Harvesting and Persecution against FALUN GONG Practitioners&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoporganharvesting.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}