(Minghui.org) On May 13, 2023, Mr. You Si-kun, the President of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan, posted on his official Facebook page about accelerating legislation in Taiwan to punish the crime of live organ harvesting in China.　

Mr. You mentioned the bill introduced by Hsu Chih-chieh, a member of the Legislative Yuan, in the latest efforts to stop the crime. So far, the bill has received support from 37 legislators, which is nearly one-third of the total legislators and well beyond the required 15 cosponsors in order to move the bill forward.

Mr. You Si-kun, President of the Legislative Yuan, discussing the bill with Ms. Wang Shumei (left), chairman of the Taiwan Association for International Care of Organ Transplants (Photo credit: Mr. You Si-kun’s Facebook page)

Mr. You said on the Facebook post that the effort to combat forced live organ harvesting has achieved global momentum. In the U.S., the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023 by a vote of 413 to 2 on March 27 of this year. Congressman Chris Smith said before the vote that an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 adults are killed by the authorities in China every year for their organs.

Mr. You added that the Canadian parliament passed a bill to combat human organ harvesting and trafficking in December 2022. Japan and South Korea are also working on similar laws. He pointed out that live organ harvesting has been recognized by the United Nations as a crime against humanity, and it is a systematic crime committed by the Chinese Communist Party. As a country that adheres to the universal value of human rights, Taiwan should speed up legislation to punish this crime against humanity and become the leading country in protecting human rights.

Mr. You also reminded the general public that the source of organs offered by Chinese hospitals for transplant may involve the crime of human trafficking or even the systematic killings of innocent people. He urged his fellow Taiwanese not to become complicit in such a crime against humanity.