The China Tribunal is a non-governmental

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to inquire into forced organ harvesting in China. It is headquartered in

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. The chair of the China Tribunal is Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, who had also been lead prosecutor at the trial of

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in the

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. Its other members include Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at

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Martin Elliott and historian

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. The tribunal was initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC).

Relationship with other organizations

The China Tribunal was commissioned by the ETAC, of which "a minority of its committee members are

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practitioners", but it states that it itself is independent from ETAC. According to the tribunal itself, "none of the members of the Tribunal, Counsel to the Tribunal, the editor or the volunteer lawyers working with Counsel to the Tribunal is a Falun Gong practitioner or has any special interest in Falun Gong."

Events and history

In 2016, ETAC asked Geoffrey Nice to write an opinion about the issues that the tribunal was later to consider; Nice advised that a body of several people could be better to consider the facts and law, which eventually led to ETAC forming the China Tribunal. The China Tribunal held 5 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 and declared the

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guilty of Crimes Against Humanity. Stating that

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had been committed beyond reasonable doubt against China's Uyghur Muslim and Falun Gong populations, and that cutting out the hearts and other organs from living victims constitutes one of the worst mass atrocities of this century. The tribunal's complete judgment was published on 1 March 2020.

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