The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) is an international

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established in the

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on April 5, 2006, by the Falun Dafa Association. The organization also has offices in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. In 2006, the organization asked former Canadian Secretary of State

David Kilgour David William Kilgour (February 18, 1941 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian human rights activist, author, lawyer, and politician. He was also a Senior Fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Kilgour graduated from the Universi ...

and human rights lawyer

David Matas David Matas (born 29 August 1943) is the senior legal counsel of B'nai Brith Canada who currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has maintained a private practice in refugee, immigration, and human rights law since 1979, and has published vario ...

to investigate allegations of

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from

Falun Gong Falun Gong (, ) or Falun Dafa (; literally, "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice") is a new religious movement.Junker, Andrew. 2019. ''Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora'', pp. 23–24, 33, 119 ...

practitioners in China. The Kilgour–Matas report concluded that, "the government of China and its agencies in numerous parts of the country, in particular hospitals but also detention centres and 'people's courts', since 1999 have put to death a large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience.

(6 July 2006, revised 31 January 2007)
An Independent Investigation into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China
(in 22 languages) organharvestinvestigation.net

History

In December 2006, the Australian government responded to the newly formed CIPFG's petition alleging unethical organ transplant procedures in China by announcing the abolition of training programs for Chinese doctors in organ transplant procedures in the Prince Charles and the Princess Alexandra Hospitals as well as ending their joint research programs into organ transplantation with China. The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong organized the international Global Human Rights Torch Relay that traveled through 150 cities in 35 countries of Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia to support a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The relay started in Athens on 9 August 2007, one year before the start of the Olympic Games. According to CIPFG, the role of the Human Rights Torch Relay was to raise awareness of

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, especially the

persecution of Falun Gong The persecution of Falun Gong is the antireligious campaign initiated in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to eliminate the spiritual practice of Falun Gong in China, maintaining a doctrine of state atheism. It is characterized by ...

. Some celebrities participated in the march, such as Chen Kai, a former member of China's national

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team.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20080511183558/http://www.cipfg.org/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20080516200142/http://www.cipfg.org/en/ (English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Coalition To Investigate The Persecution Of Falun Gong Falun Gong Political repression in China Religious persecution International human rights organizations Human rights organizations based in the United States Organizations established in 2006 2008 Summer Olympics Undesirable organizations in Russia

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