VOC Research Supports Verdict on Chinese Communist Crimes

Matthew Robertson, VOC China Studies Research fellow, gave expert testimony before an independent tribunal held in London on December 8-10 to investigate the practice in China of killing political prisoners for their organs.

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) China Studies Research Fellow Matthew Robertson appeared as an expert witness before the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China, held in London on December 8-10.

Robertson briefed the seven-member panel — chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, a former judge who helped prosecute Slobodan Milošević for war crimes in Yugoslavia — on his research into evidence that China’s hospital and prison system have collaborated to harvest organs from political prisoners.

The tribunal issued a unanimous interim judgment that this atrocity has been taking place “beyond any reasonable doubt” for a “substantial period of time” on a “very substantial” scale.