US ‘Will Continue to Focus’ on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting: State Department

WASHINGTON—China’s state-sponsored forced organ harvesting continues to be a concern for the United States, a State Department official told reporters on March 20.
The communist regime’s systematic act of forcibly taking organs from prisoners of conscience for sale—which first came to light around 2006 after several whistleblowers came forward to The Epoch Times—has increasingly drawn attention in recent years. The European Parliament, as well as dozens of U.S. states and cities, have issued resolutions condemning the abuse, and federal lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have recently introduced legislation that seeks to hold perpetrators accountable.
Erin Barclay, the State Department’s acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, said she’s aware of the congressional legislative proposal, and pointed to a section in the department’s newly released human rights report highlighting the issue….}