Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture states torture is
currently widespread in China at a news briefing held at UN Office at Geneva
on March 30, 2006 (AFP/Getty Images)
(Clearwisdom.net) The Central News Agency reported on March 31, 2006
that the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak expressed yesterday that
he is looking into the allegations by the Falun Gong group that the Sujiatun
Concentration Camp in Shenyang, Liaoning Province has secretly imprisoned Falun
Gong practitioners and harvested live practitioners' organs to sell for profit.
BBC's Chinese language web site cited Nowak that if these allegations are
found serious and well-founded, he will officially submit it to the attention of
the Chinese government.
The report said that the Falun Gong group recently alleged that since 2001,
Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western
Medicine in Sujiatun, Shenyang City, started secretly detaining 6,000 Falun Gong
practitioners and harvesting these practitioners' kidneys, livers and corneas
and other bodily organs to sell for profit.
In addition, Nowak condemned the Chinese Judicial system for extorting
confessions from suspects and local officials widely using torture in China
without being held accountable.
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