Webinar: Global Reverberations of the Persecution of Falun Gong: Undetected Genocide and Weaponization of Medicine by DAFOH

Global Reverberations of the Persecution of Falun Gong: Undetected Genocide and Weaponization of Medicine

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On the anniversary of the genocide convention, we reflect on the importance to detect, prevent and stop the tragedy of a genocide. Who are we as a people if we don’t take action. In this session we address how a medical discipline is abused to carry out a concealed genocide. Forced organ harvesting has been used to bring destruction to a religious practice called Falun Gong. This has been presented to the UNHRC and discussed in academic journals.

UNHRC: https://youtu.be/oP7KJ5tey4o

Academic journal: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol12/iss1/6/

The first session of our 2-day forum will include presentations by distinguished guest speakers.

For details on all 4 sessions of the 2-day forum, please visit: https://www.bigmarker.com/series/commemorating-Falun-Gong

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Presenters

Joseph Gigliotti, DC

Moderator

DAFOH Member Dr. Joseph Gigliotti is a chiropractor and the founder of Full Life Family Chiropractic, a neurologically-focused clinic specializing in Upper Cervical Chiropractic care. A graduate of New York Chiropractic College, Dr. Gigliotti is committed to mastering traditional upper cervical techniques while integrating advanced imaging to enhance clinical outcomes and is recognized for his precise, image-guided approach to spinal alignment, helping patients address a wide range of health concerns. He also mentors recent graduates in principled, patient-centered care.

Richard An, LLD LLM

Lawyer

Richard An is a lawyer licensed in the U.S. and Canada, specializing in litigation, judicial review and refugee law and is a member of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China. He co-authored the paper “Cold Genocide: Falun Gong in China” with Maria Cheung, Torsten Trey and David Matas which was published in 2018. He has presented on the topic of forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience at multiple events, including a presentation on the “Latest Development in China’s Killing of Prisoners of Conscience for Organ Transplants” at the 2019 Annual Meeting and Expo of the American Public Health Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Harry van Bommel

Harry van Bommel is a Dutch politician and human rights activist. He holds a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in political science. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Dutch Parliament from 1998 to 2017. In that capacity, he focused on matters of foreign policy, especially human rights, democracy and international conflicts. He also served as an international election observer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Currently, Mr. van Bommel works as a strategic executive advisor to the city of Zwolle, Netherlands and provides training to activists and politicians in young democracies. He remains active on human rights issues related to Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans and Ahmadis and advises diaspora organizations and non-governmental organizations on human rights, recognition, development and conflict prevention.

Nicole Höchst

German MP

Nicole Höchst has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 and is the chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and is the spokesperson for religious policy and research, technology and space travel.

Harold King, BDS, MSc

Director of DAFOH France

Dr. Harold King is Deputy Directors of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and director of its European branch. Dr. King joined DAFOH as a medical professional in 2007 and has participated throughout Europe in many conferences and meetings to help move forward the international communities understanding of forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Forced organ harvesting (FOH) is unique to China and is the Chinese Communists Party means of secretly exterminating Falun Gong practitioners under the disguise of organ donation and transplantation. FOH is considered a crime against humanity as well as a threat to medical ethics and scientific research.

David Matas

International Human Rights Lawyer

David Matas graduated from Oxford University, England, and is a legal expert specializing in refugee, immigration and human rights law. In July 2006, he and the late Hon. David Kilgour, through independent investigations, published “Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China.” The work won them the 2009 Human Rights Award from the German-based International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) and nomination for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Matas has traveled to more than 50 countries to raise awareness of China’s forced organ harvesting from living prisoners of conscience, especially Falun Gong practitioners. The documentary film of these investigations into China’s systematic crime, “Human Harvest,” won the 2015 Peabody Award.

Sir Geoffrey Nice

Sir Geoffrey Nice, KC, is one of the U.K.’s most distinguished human rights lawyers. He is a professor of law and advisor on many human rights committees. He was knighted in 2007 for services to International Criminal Justice. In 1998, he was recruited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and prosecuted a number of cases relating to genocide. In November 2001, he undertook the prosecution of Slobodan Milošević until the end of that trial in 2006. Sir Nice chaired the China Tribunal from 2017 to 2019 into the forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience, primarily Falun Gong practitioners, and the Uyghur Tribunal from 2020 to 2022 into the persecution of Uyghurs where one form of Genocide was found proved.

Nima Gholam Ali Pour

Swedish MP

Nima Gholam Ali Pour is an Iranian-born Swedish politician, author, activist, political commentator and journalist specialized in international migration and ethnic relations. He was elected to the Swedish Parliament in 2022.

Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers, FRACGP, PhD

ETAC International Advisory Board Chair

Wendy Rogers is Professor of Clinical Ethics and Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre. She has a long-standing interest in the ethics of organ donation and transplantation and has twice served on the Australian Health Ethics Committee, taking a leading role in developing the 2007 National Health and Medical Research Council’s guidelines for organ and tissue donation, and leading the current revision of the national research ethics guidelines.
Widely published in international medical and bioethics journals, Dr. Rogers received the 2019 NHMRC Ethics award and was identified as Australia’s leading researcher in the field of bioethics. Her research exposing publication of unethical Chinese transplant research has been internationally recognized, leading to her inclusion in Nature’s list of 10 people who mattered in science in 2019 and Medscape’s 12 best physicians of the year.

Jim Shannon

British MP

Jim Shannon has served as a member of the British parliament since 2010. He is currently the spokesperson on Health and Human Rights for his party and a member of the Ecclesiastical (Joint) Committee. He chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Belief, advocating for human rights.

Zhiyuan Wang, MD

Dr. Zhiyuan Wang is chairman of the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) and chairman of the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party.
Dr. Wang graduated from the Aviation Medical Department of the Fourth Military Medical University in China and started working in the medical field in 1972. He served successively as an aviation military doctor and a director of aviation medical services. Dr. Wang was a member of the first post–Cultural Revolution session of the Science and Technology Committee of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, and an editorial board member of the Chinese Air Force’s Aviation Military Medicine journal.
Dr. Wang came to the United States in 1995 and has been a research specialist at the Cardiovascular Biology Laboratory, Harvard School of Public Health, focusing on carotid arteries transplantation for the murine model of accelerated transplant and mouse model of vein graft stenosis microsurgery.
He previously suffered from progressive spinal muscular atrophy, and in February 1998, he was fortunate to regain health through practicing Falun Dafa.

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