The China Tribunal held five days of public hearings in December 2018 and April 2019, in which over 50 fact witnesses, experts, and investigators testified.

On 17 June 2019, the China Tribunal pronounced its “final judgment” on organ harvesting in China, concluding that the Chinese Communist Party was, beyond reasonable doubt, guilty of committing crimes against humanity against China’s Uyghur Muslim and Falun Gong populations, and that removing hearts and other organs from living victims constituted one of the worst mass atrocities of this century.

The China Tribunal Judgment stated: “In the long-term practice in the PRC of forced organ harvesting it was indeed Falun Gong practitioners who were used as a source – probably the principal source – of organs for forced organ harvesting.” adding that there was no evidence of the practice having been stopped and that the Tribunal was satisfied that it continued.

The judgment was published on 1 March 2020.

Sources:

• Judgment – China Tribunal
• China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules (bbc.com)
• Uyghur tribunal rules that China ‘committed genocide’ against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities | CNN
• The Uyghur Tribunal Judgment
• China’s forced organ harvesting constitutes crimes against humanity, informal London tribunal finds | The BMJ