Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Dr. Ko Wen-je claimed—I asked him this question—that it's done on an informal e-based system between doctors. In other words, if somebody's looking for something and says, I need this blood type, it's passed around through that. There are some fantastic dissident hackers who have wanted to hack into sort of a central database.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm not sure that we know at this time what the ordinary Chinese citizen knows about organ harvesting. There are certainly rumours. This is widely suppressed on the Web. There is one interesting factoid, though. Just three days before the Chinese medical establishment made its widely trumpeted claims of reform—they were on the front pages of Canadian newspapers, and in my home country of America in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times—they did open up the Internet to search the term “Wang Lijun live organ harvesting” for 24 hours.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. For those who engage in primary research on the organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience in China, this hearing comes at the end of a particularly ominous year. Winter saw the fatal collapse of two years of medical engagement with Chinese medical authorities. Spring brought new evidence that the mass harvesting of prisoners of conscience was not only continuing but accelerating.