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China is to triple the number of facilities [in the Xinjiang Region] it uses to forcibly harvest the organs of detained Uyghur people, it has been claimed.
Experts have raised the alarm after it emerged that the Xinjiang Health Commission, a branch of China’s national health authority, plans to build six new medical centres by 2030, bringing the total in the region to nine – more than any other province in the country.
The expansion has heightened concerns over China’s treatment of Uyghur people, against whom the government already stands accused of genocide.
Beijing has also been accused of forcibly harvesting the organs of prisoners from minority groups and, in some cases, selling them to wealthy recipients willing to pay the equivalent of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of pounds.
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An international tribunal, conducted in the UK in 2019, found that as many as 100,000 organ transplants had been carried out in China annually – nearly three times the number that its government reported to the international register.
Sayragul Sauytbay, a Kazakh doctor who was previously detained in Xinjiang, has spoken publicly about camp-wide “health checks” where detainees had their blood tested and, depending on their results, were then sorted into groups.
She began to notice that those who were given a pink check mark would soon disappear, concluding it was because of “organ harvesting”.
While the decision to build the new facilities was made in December last year, the plans have only recently been made public by End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC), an Australia-based campaign group.
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