A group of House Republicans has introduced legislation to ensure that Americans are not unknowingly complicit in Beijing’s systematic forced organ harvesting targeting prisoners of conscience.
Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), who sits on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the Block Organ Transplant Purchases from China Act (H.R.2114) on March 14. The bill, also known as the BLOCK Act, is cosponsored by two other committee members, committee Chairman John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.).
“The Chinese Communist Party has a long track record of human rights violations stemming from illegal organ harvesting in their own country,” Dunn said in a statement. “Communist Party authorities regularly target Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in China for this barbaric practice….