WHEREAS,  there continue to be persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from nonconsenting prisoners of conscience and members of religious and ethnic minority groups in the People's Republic of China, resulting in mass killings of Uyghurs, Tibetans, select Christians and practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice, in order to obtain organs for transplants; and

WHEREAS,  China's organ transplantation system does not comply with the World Health Organization's guiding principles of traceability and transparency in organ procurement, and China's government has resisted independent scrutiny of the system; and

WHEREAS,  new investigative reports conclude that the Chinese Communist Party has engaged in the mass killings of innocent people to obtain organs for transplants, and China's official figure of 10,000 transplants each year has been understated by an order of magnitude; and

WHEREAS,  the United Nations Committee Against Torture and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment have called for increased accountability and transparency in China's organ transplantation system and punishment for those responsible for abuse; and

WHEREAS,  the practice of harvesting organs from prisoners, and explicitly from Falun Gong prisoners of conscience and members of religious and ethnic minority groups, is an egregious and intolerable violation of the fundamental right to live; now, therefore, be it