A gentleman who was kept captive in a harsh Chinese detention facility has recounted the dreadful experience of being sedated and waking to find his organs removed, solely due to his spiritual convictions.
Cheng Pei Ming asserts he was subjected to state-sanctioned confinement and coerced organ extraction between 1999 and 2006 by the Chinese Communist Party because of his adherence to Falun Gong, which was outlawed as an “evil cult” by China in 1999.
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Cheng Pei Ming claims he was presented with a medical consent document, which he declined to sign. Despite his objections, he alleges he was then forcefully given a sedative injection.
Upon regaining his senses, he noticed a cut extending down his chest. He later discovered portions of his liver and lung had been taken while he was unconscious, according to the Diplomat.
Cheng informed The Daily Mail: “Six guards seized me and held me down, and I received an injection of something. The next thing I recall is being in a hospital bed with tubes inserted into my nose, fluctuating in and out of consciousness. There was a tube with sanguineous fluid emanating from beneath the dressings on my side.”, as reported by the Daily Star.
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Photographs depicting the aftermath, which Cheng believes were captured by a hospital staff member, show him unconscious and restrained to the hospital bed.
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These visuals have been widely disseminated online, particularly on a Chinese platform named Minghui.org, which disseminates information concerning the persecution of Falun Gong adherents. Cheng is a follower of this spiritual discipline, which possesses strong roots in Buddhist philosophy.
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Medical professionals are unable to provide a definitive explanation for the removal of his organs, but Professor Wendy Rogers, Chair of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC)’s International Advisory Board, stated, “he did not have a malady or infirmity necessitating this surgery.”
The procedure bears a resemblance to methods utilized in a 1990s surgical intervention for the extraction of liver tissue for paediatric transplants, a fact confirmed by the professor.
She elaborated: “Mr. Cheng’s situation exemplifies the callous disregard for the human rights of prisoners of conscience within China… he was subjected to surgical violation as part of a broader pattern of persecution, incarceration, and torture.”
Cheng is reported to have been critically unwell following the alleged coercive procedure, experiencing persistent exhaustion and respiratory difficulties, yet was unable to obtain further medical assistance as he reportedly remained detained for an additional 18 months.
In March 2006, he commenced a hunger strike, at which point he was advised that he would need to undergo yet another unclarified surgical procedure.
Recognising that this surgery could potentially prove fatal, Cheng made the desperate choice to abscond from the facility in a daring bid for liberation.
He recounted: “When they transported me to the hospital again and informed me I needed to undergo another operation, I was certain they intended to end my life.”
Several hours prior to his surgery, he requested that the guard overseeing his room accompany him to the restroom. Upon their return, the guard neglected to re-fasten his restraints to the bed frame and, fortunately for Cheng, dozed off in his seat.
Seizing the opportune moment, Cheng escaped and navigated his way through the building’s emergency stairwells. He hailed a taxi from outside the medical facility, offering canned fruit he had pilfered from his room as payment. Cheng was free.
He remained in concealment within China for close to a decade before obtaining informal refuge in Thailand. It wasn’t until July 2020 that he managed to arrive in the United States as an officially recognized United Nations refugee.
David Matas, an international human rights legal professional and ETAC Co-Founder, stated that Cheng represents thousands of individuals who have suffered similar fates – but he is unique in that he survived.
He remarked: “Mr. Cheng is, in one respect, a representative victim of China’s illicit organ harvesting practices – a Falun Gong practitioner whose organs were stolen by the CCP.
“In another respect, he is uncommon because he survived organ extraction and evaded both the Chinese authorities and China itself.
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“Similar to other Falun Gong practitioners, Mr. Cheng was never informed he was slated to have his organs extracted. Nor was he informed afterward that he had undergone organ extraction. He only discovered this after he fled China and underwent a medical examination.
“He exemplifies a widespread occurrence, the exception that validates the rule, with the rule in this instance being the ghastly reality of the mass execution of Falun Gong adherents for their organs.”
The China Tribunal, an independent judicatory body presided over by British barrister Sir Geoffrey Nice, concluded in 2020 that China’s forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience constitutes crimes against humanity.
The Tribunal estimated that between 60,000 and 100,000 illicit organ transplantations are performed annually. The US Senate is presently deliberating the Falun Gong Protection Act, which aims to impose penalties on those implicated in forced organ harvesting and demand accountability from the Chinese administration.
Beijing has consistently refuted claims that it forcibly removes organs from prisoners of conscience, asserting that it discontinued the use of organs from executed inmates in 2015.
In response to an inquiry for commentary following the China Tribunal’s findings, a representative for the Chinese Embassy in London affirmed that human organ donation must be “voluntary and without compensation.”