A new report has been released claiming that China is killing their prisoners in order to get their organs for organ-transplant operations.

According to the new report, a team of researcher that includes two prominent Canadian human rights activists have found out that there are numerous organ transplants in the country that have not been officially acknowledged by Chinese hospitals, leading to the question of where these organs are coming from. China's elite and foreigners are said to be paying a lot of money in order to receive new kidneys and livers.

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Three of the activists have been identified as David Matas, David Kilgour and Ethan Gutmann. They have been publishing evidence for the past decade that China is using Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans, and Christians as their source for human tissue extraction.

However, in the new research, they claim that prisoners are the source of human organs.

The Globe and Mail reported that 146 hospitals made a combined 7,785 organ transplants last year. However, the team of the researchers claims that Chinese surgeons are actually transplanting around 60,000 to 100,000 organs.

One of the hospitals named in the research is the Oriental Organ Transplant Center at the Tianjin First Center Hospital, which is said to be doing more than 6,000 transplants annually.

The latest research by the authors is a 798-page document that will be presented to the U.S. Congress this Thursday.

Kilgour said in a statement, "What we're trying to do is get the government, the party state in Beijing, to stop killing their own people for their organs. An industrial-scale crime against humanity is going on in China."

China has defended the country and its people from the accusations saying that the research is groundless. China did acknowledge using prisoner organs in the past but contested that the practice stopped last year. 

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