A California resident said his relatives in China were involved in state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting and had asked him for patient referrals from the United States, a recent human rights report revealed.
Lu Shuping, a U.S. permanent resident originally from Shanghai who is now past 70 years old, gave his full name in making the revelation to the New York-based nonprofit, World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), in October 2016. The human rights group did not release the interview details for four years out of concern for Lu’s safety.
The older sister of Lu’s sister-in-law, Zhou Qing, worked as the director of the Shanghai Wanping Hospital in Xuhui district, according to Lu. During a trip to China in 2002, Lu recalled that Zhou, upon learning that he knew many doctors through his home renovation business in the United States, asked if he could connect her with anyone who needs an organ transplant, especially cornea, kidney, or liver.
While Lu, Zhou, and her husband were sitting together one day, “her husband told me in person that she went to a military hospital to do [organ transplant surgery]. He also said that it’s quick money and the sum is quite large,” Lu told WOIPFG in an interview. “He said, ‘you should get people over from outside,’ and that ‘this is in really good quality, all fresh and alive,’” Lu said.
The word “alive” had puzzled Lu at the time, he said. But over the years, as he began to hear more about “live organ harvesting” in the media, he began to piece the information together.
The information from Lu adds to a growing pile of evidence pointing to a massive “on-demand” organ industry, where prisoners of conscience, such as practitioners of the faith group Falun Gong, are killed for their organs, which are sold for profit for use in transplant surgery.