“Organs labeled halal, this may be a selling point for China”, quipped Sylvie Lasserre. The journalist, author of the book Journey to the land of Uyghurs: from invisible persecution to Orwellian hell, denounces, however, very real trafficking: that of the organs of prisoners of this Muslim minority living in Xinjiang, a region in north-west China.
3 million Uighurs locked up
Today, three million Uighurs would be locked up in internment camps according to Sylvie Lasserre. Five years ago, she had collected a disturbing testimony: a young Uighur, interned in a camp, had received an injection of an unknown product. He had been taken to a hospital where he had passed out. “The next day, he woke up with a kidney scar. “
Chinese government involved
Online media survey Vice, published on June 19, confirms that China is engaged in a vast trafficking in human organs. Uighurs consuming neither alcohol nor pork, their organs would be prized by certain Muslim patients. They would sell three times more expensive. “The Chinese government is promoting these halal bodies in Saudi Arabia to attract Muslims”, accuses Erkin Sidick, adviser to the World Uyghur Congress, in the investigation of Vice.
The article reveals that the organs of a healthy 30-year-old prisoner can be worth up to $ 500,000. Ethan Gutmann, American journalist, suspects profits are shared between hospitals, local Communist Party establishments and internment camps
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