A/HRC/4/21/Add.1 page 29 matched organs would suggest the existence of a computerized matching system for transplants and a large bank of live prospective donors. 110. It is alleged that the discrepancy between available organs and numbers from identifiable sources is explained by organs harvested from Falun Gong practitioners, and that the rise in transplants from 2000 coincides and correlates with the beginning of the persecution of these persons. 111. On organ transplants, in general, it has been reported that in March 2006, legislation was introduced which bans the sale of human organs and requires the donor to give written permission. The legislation also limits transplants to certain institutions, which must verify the source of the organs. This law came in force on 1 July 2006. Contrary to the Government assertion that human organs have been prohibited from sale, in accordance with the 1991 WHO guiding principles, it has been reported that up to this time Chinese law has allowed the buying and selling of organs, has not required that donors give written permission for their organs to be transplanted, there has been no restriction on the institutions which could engage in organ harvesting or transplants, there was no requirement that the institutions engaged in transplants had to verify that the organs being transplanted were from legal sources, and there was no obligation to have transplant ethics committees approve all transplants in advance. Moreover, evidence exists, for example, that at least up until April 2006 price lists for organ transplants in China were published on the Internet. Response from the Government dated 28 November 2006 112. The Government replied that in March 2006, Falun Gong began fabricating the so-called “Sujiatun Concentration Camp” issue, saying that 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners had been incarcerated in Sujiatun Hospital in Shenyang, Liaoyang Province and that two thirds of them had had organs removed from their living bodies and the corpses cremated to destroy the evidence. In order to clarify the facts, the Sujiatun District Government carried out an investigation at the hospital; domestic and foreign media including Japan’s NHK and Hong Kong’s Phoenix Satellite Network and Ta Kung Pao conducted on-the-scene interviews; and two visits were paid by consular personnel from the US embassy. Based on the results of these investigations it was discovered that the hospital only had 300 beds and was completely incapable of housing more than 6,000 persons. There was no such basement for incarcerating Falun Gong practitioners, as alleged by Falun Gong. The so-called “cremation oven” announced by Falun Gong is in fact a boiler/furnace room, whose primary function is to provide heat and disinfect medical instruments. This boiler room has several transparent glass windows and a lawn outside that is open to the public where nearby residents come daily to stroll. In such a place, with such a physical setting, there is simply no way to cremate corpses in secret, continuously, and in large volume. The rumors fabricated by Falun Gong collapse on their own. Everyone recognizes that Sujiatun Hospital is nothing but a simple hospital and that there is no evidence to show that it is being used for any purpose other than as a public hospital. This once again proves that the “Sujiatun Concentration Camp” fabricated by Falun Gong is nothing more than a rumor. 113. As a WHO member-state, the Chinese Government resolutely abides by the WHO’s 1991 Guiding Principles on Human Organ Transplants and strictly forbids the sale of human organs. Human organ donation must be done voluntarily and with the written consent of the donor.