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THE EPOCH TIMES

Taiwan Indicts Surgeon Who Sent Patients to China for Organ Transplants

The case marks the first indictment alleging illegal organ brokering since the island amended its Human Organ Transplant Act in 2015.

Doctors prepare for a kidney transplant in a file photo. Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images

By Frank Fang and Eva Fu
11/26/2024 Updated: 11/27/2024


TAIPEI, Taiwan—A Taiwanese surgeon and four other individuals have been charged with illegally brokering organ transplantation in China, a case that a local medical advocacy group said is alarming given that Beijing sources organs from prisoners of conscience.

The surgeon, Chen Yao-li, is accused of orchestrating a criminal group that helped send 10 Taiwanese patients to China for organ transplant surgery from 2016 to 2019, the district prosecutors’ office in southern Taiwan’s Changhua County said in a press release on Nov. 25.

Chen is charged with violating the island’s Human Organ Transplant Act, which says that any transplant organ “shall be provided or acquired free of charge” and “persons who broker organ transplants or the provision and acquisition of organs” may be jailed for up to five years and a maximum fine of NT$1.5 million (about $46,200).

Chen once worked at the Changhua Christian Hospital’s organ transplant center.

After prosecutors announced the indictment, the hospital said Chen has not worked at the facility since July 2022. The Changhua prosecutors began investigating Chen in March of that year.

The hospital warned locals against traveling to China for liver transplants, citing reports and the United Nations’ warning about the regime’s forced organ harvesting that targets Falun Gong practitioners, prisoners of conscience, Uyghurs, and Christians. It added that it prohibits unethical and illegal medical conduct and respects the results of judicial investigations.

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