No organ harvests

Alistair Carmichael MP, in his Perspective article of 19 March criticising the Vocational Education and Training Centres in Xinjiang China and so-called “forced organ harvesting”, disregards facts.

Sale of human organs in China is a serious criminal offence. The only legal source of human organs is voluntary donation by the citizens. Moreover, China also proposed the World Health Assembly establish a special committee of organ donation and transplantation led by WHO, supervising member states with regard to organ transplantation and assisting them in fighting sale of organs.

The proposal received positive responses from many member states.

LYU YANXIA Consulate General of China, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh