VOC Senior Fellow Ethan Gutmann Featured at Hudson Institute Event

On April 9, VOC Senior Fellow in China Studies, Ethan Gutmann, was featured at a Hudson Institute event called “New Evidence of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting and a Proposed US Response” alongside Nina Shea, VOC Advisory Council Member and Senior Fellow and Director at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, and Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4), Co-Chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China.

Ethan Gutmann’s latest book, The Xinjiang Procedure, was released last month and details his investigations into forced organ harvesting in China.

The panel examined documented evidence of forced organ harvesting within China’s detention system, including findings from Gutmann’s investigative research that organ harvesting “on an industrial scale is a heinous feature of this genocide” affecting Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. The discussion also addressed Western medical institutions’ role in training Chinese transplant surgeons and the status of HR 1503, the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, which is awaiting Senate consideration.

Ms. Shea said of Gutmann’s work: “Ethan is the leading field researcher on forced organ harvesting in China. He has risked his life traveling undercover in the police states of Central Asia to interview Xinjiang prison survivors. He got unique first-hand accounts of those prisons, which form the heart of his new book.”

Rep. Smith praised Mr. Gutmann’s research:  “The world, especially people living under Xi Jinping’s brutal dictatorship, owe Ethan Gutmann an enormous debt of gratitude for his remarkable decades-long exposé of the Chinese Communist Party’s Nazi-like slaughter of young people to steal and to harvest their organs.”

Rep. Smith added that “The Xinjiang Procedure meticulously documents forced organ harvesting and the compelling need to end this barbaric policy. Ethan Gutmann is a man of impeccable truth and accuracy… This book is a must-read for any policymaker who cares about human rights… As a lawmaker, it helped me and many of my colleagues to better understand the who, the what, the where, the how, and the why this cruelty has expanded exponentially, often hiding in plain sight.”