Bill Text: IL HR0730 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urges the Chinese Communist Party to immediately stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, urges the U.S. government to investigate organ transplants in China, and requests the U.S. government to prohibit any doctors who performed transplants using organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners from gaining entry into the U.S.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 10-3)

Status: (Passed) 2014-02-26 - Resolution Adopted [HR0730 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HR0730-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Falun Gong is a peaceful spiritual practice with
key values of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance for
achieving physical and spiritual well-being through exercise
and meditation; and
WHEREAS, Falun Gong has benefitted tens of millions in
China and elsewhere; and
WHEREAS, Since July 1999, Falun Gong practitioners have
been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party, as documented
by the United States Department of State, the U.S. Commission
on International Religious Freedom, Amnesty International,
Human Rights Watch, and many other governmental and third-party
organizations; and
WHEREAS, This persecution of the Falun Gong has involved
the widespread use of torture; and
WHEREAS, The Chinese Communist authority is persecuting
Falun Gong practitioners with this policy: "Defame their
reputation, bankrupt them financially, destroy them
physically"; and
WHEREAS, Over 3,700 Falun Gong practitioners have died from

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documented abuse, and some of their bodies were missing
internal organs; and
WHEREAS, The U.S. Department of State in its 2011 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices stated, "Overseas and
domestic media and advocacy groups continued to report
instances of organ harvesting, particularly from Falun Gong
practitioners and Uighurs"; and
WHEREAS, Canadian human rights attorney David Matas and
former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David
Kilgour co-wrote the investigative report "Bloody Harvest:
Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun
Gong Practitioners in China"; and
WHEREAS, The Matas-Kilgour report concluded that the organ
harvesting allegations were true and that tens of thousands of
Falun Gong practitioners may have been killed for their organs;
and
WHEREAS, The harvested organs are then used by the
hospitals associated with the prison for transplants, with the
customers for these transplants often being individuals from
elsewhere, including the United States; and
WHEREAS, Researcher and journalist Ethan Gutmann estimates

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that approximately 65,000 Falun Gong adherents may have been
killed for their organs from 2000 to 2008, and that a smaller
number of other religious and ethnic minorities may also have
been targeted; and
WHEREAS, In May 2012, the World Organization to Investigate
the Persecution of Falun Gong released telephone transcripts
and audio recordings of conversations between undercover
investigators and senior Chinese Communist Party officials, in
which several officials indicated that central authorities
were aware of or involved in organ harvesting from Falun Gong
prisoners; and
WHEREAS, Kirk C. Allison, Ph.D., Director of the Program in
Human Rights and Health of the University of Minnesota School
of Public Health, testified in 2006 before the Subcommittee on
Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on International
Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, on the topic of his
report, "Mounting Evidence of Falun Gong Practitioners used as
Organ Sources in China and Related Ethical Responsibilities";
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we call upon the Chinese Communist Party to immediately stop
persecuting Falun Gong practitioners; and be it further

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RESOLVED, That we urge the United States government and the
U.S. President to investigate organ transplants in China and
take all reasonable steps to bring an end to the revolting
practice of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong
practitioners for transplants; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we request the United States government to
prohibit any doctors who performed transplants using organs
harvested from Falun Gong practitioners from gaining entry into
the United States; and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
presented to the Falun Gong practitioners of Illinois, the
President of the United States of America Barack Obama, and the
Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai.