Involvement With The Falun Gong
In July 2006 with co-participant David Matas he released report entitled Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China. The report alleged that the Chinese authorities were executing a "large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience" and removing their internal organs including corneas, hearts, kidneys and livers for sale to foreign nationals in need of healthy organs for transplant. The report received a mixed reception in the Western World, and was dismissed by China and Russia.
Matas and Kilgour won the 2009 Human Rights Award from the German based International Society for Human Rights for their work with the Chinese organ harvesting project. According to the press, they were separately nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on Chinese organ harvesting by Canadian MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj and Balfour Hakak, chairman of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel.
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