All nations with Magnitsky laws should apply sanctions against Chinese government officials involved in organ harvesting

All governments should join the countries that ban ‘organ tourism’ to China for transplant surgery. Any bilateral or multilateral agreement with Beijing must insist that this barbaric practice stop immediately, coupled with a mechanism whereby such stoppage is verifiable.

Demonstrators against the genocide of Uyghurs in China, pictured Feb. 22, 2021, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the day the House voted to declare Beijing’s ongoing persecution of its Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, including Uyghurs, to be a genocide. Photograph courtesy of David Kilgour

Opinion

BY DAVID KILGOUR

March 8, 2021

Canada’s House of Commons voted 266 to zero on Feb. 22 to declare Beijing’s ongoing persecution of its Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, including Uyghurs, to be a genocide within the 1948 Genocide Convention. The motion also called on Canada’s government to push for relocation of the 202...

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