Webinar: Pursuing accountability for forced organ harvesting crimes by DAFOH

World Summit CPFOH 2021

Pursuing accountability for forced organ harvesting crimes

About

Legal experts based on their 15 years of observation and research in the field of forced organ harvesting will explore the culpability of forced organ harvesting from different legal perspectives and make specific recommendations for effectively combatting and preventing forced organ harvesting.

https://worldsummitcpfoh.info/events/pursuing-accountability-for-forced-organ-harvesting-crimes/

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Agenda

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Presenters

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 David Kilgour, through independent investigations, published “Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China.” The work won Matas (and Hon. David Kilgour) the 2009 Human Rights Award from the German-based International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) and nomination for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
Over the past decade, Matas has traveled to more than 40 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 investigation into China’s systemic crime, “Human Harvest,” won the 2015 Peabody Award.

Carlos Iglesias Jiménez

Human Rights Lawyer

Carlos Iglesias Jiménez, Spanish human rights lawyer specialising in China. He represents Falun Gong practitioners in criminal cases brought against former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and four other Chinese Communist Party leaders on charges of genocide and large-scale torture.
He is the European Director of the Human Rights Law Foundation. He participated in several sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva informing its members about the persecution of Falun Gong.

Theresa Chu

Lawyer, Spokeswoman for Taiwan Falun Gong Atty. Group

Theresa Chu is an international human rights lawyer. Since the onset of the persecution against Falun Gong in 1999, she has defended victims on a pro bono basis, and is actively involved in litigation to bring suit against former Chinese Party, Chief Jiang Zemin, and other CCP officials involved in organ harvesting crimes.
An influential leader, Attorney Chu supported changes to human rights laws in Taiwan as adviser to the Taiwanese government. She is an expert lecturer, speaking before international government officials, human rights organizations and members of parliament about human rights concerns and the collective lawsuits from countries all over the world by Falun Gong victims. She is also the legal consultant of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.

Kim Song

Judge of Seoul Administrative Court

Kim Song is a member of the International Human Rights Law Community of Korean judges. She presented her research on “Organ Transplant Law in Korea – Overview, Cases and Suggestion for Amendment in compliance with Declaration of Istanbul” at Asia Symposium on Combating Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, which was held at Tokyo University in 2019.
In this research she analysed all the Korean criminal cases on organ trafficking in China where the receivers were Koreans and found abnormal patterns in common, such as very short waiting period, suspicious source of organs, supply of organs on demand without no failure.

Sophia Bryskine

Moderator

Sophia Bryskine is an optometrist and primary healthcare practitioner in Sydney, and a senior researcher in Australia for Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, DAFOH.
A key liaison officer for government and media efforts on the topic of forced organ removal from prisoners of conscience in China, she is an advocate for ethical transplantation practices within the medical community.