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September 20, 2018
Man demands Body the exhibition to show evidence of its organ source
Celeste Li
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Huang WanQing is on a mission to find
his missing brother, who he fears was
murdered by the Chinese regime, and worse.
Huang boarded a flight in New York to
search for his brother in Australia.
Huang’s worst fear is that his brother’s remains
are on display as part of the controversial
“Real Bodies: the Exhibition” showing in Sydney—
a display of 20 real, plastinated human bodies and
over 200 body parts that came from Dalian, China.
Communist China has long been in the spotlight
for its rampant human rights abuse and
lack of transparency regarding the “crimes”
committed by its political or religious prisoners.
There is also no transparency surrounding the
whereabouts and treatment of prisoners
within the communist state’s detention system.
Many experts say it remains impossible to determine
the validity of any ‘official’ documents from China,
such as those in the possession of ‘Real Bodies’
that claim their human remains were “legally donated.”
Similar exhibitions were banned by authorities in
France, Hawaii, Seattle, Israel, and the Czech Republic
for failing to provide evidence that the body ‘donations’
in China were voluntary and gave consent for display.
[Dr. Huang WanQing, an American Chinese man]:
Whenever I think that brother may have been tortured,
then murdered for his belief and then put on
commercial display in the exhibition,
I feel a knife-cutting sharp of pain in my heart.”
Huang’s brother is a Falun Gong practitioner.
Since 1999, the Chinese Communist Party has been
brutally persecuting Falun Gong, a spiritual practice.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and International
human rights lawyer David Matas has been
investigating the charge of a kill-on-demand organ
transplant system operating in China for many years.
Matas explained that in addition to concerns about
organ harvesting, body exhibits sourced from
China warranted similar attention.
[David Matas, international human rights lawyer]
NO NEED: “Well, with organ harvesting, we are facing the
situation where there's large volume of transplants,
and no official explanation that makes any sense of
what the sources of all these transplants and
that's one of the reasons we came to the
conclusion that we did, that the sourcing was
the prisoner of conscience, Falun Gong.
We have a similar situation with the body exhibits.
We have no explanation of where these bodies come from,
we know that with the Falun Gong when they're in prison,
a lot of them didn't self-identify to protect their families,
so if they die in prison, of course their bodies are
going to be unclaimed, because the families
don't know where they are.”
Huang suspects that after being killed for his beliefs,
his brother’s body was deems ‘unclaimed’ and then
‘legally donated’ to be plastinated and flown
around the world for display.
Huang WanQing:
“If the exhibition company cannot provide the
documents showing the voluntary [and]
informed consent of the deceased,
[then] I'm requesting that all the bodies and
organ parts from the exhibit be submitted for
DNA testing to ascertain the identity of the deceased.”
[Prof. Li HuiGe, Professor of Pharmacology at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz]
“According to [common practice and professional] ethics,
if you can’t provide evidence for the source of
these organs, then it should be shut down,
because if [something] this [unethical]
Can happen, then anything can happen.”
For 15 years, Huang has travelled to many
different organizations to search for his brother.
He says that no matter how hopeless the situation,
he will never give up his search for the truth
about his brother’s disappearance.
He hopes that his public appeal can raise awareness
about the human rights abuses suffered by Falun Gong,
Uyghur, and other minority groups in China.
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