Uighur Witness to Organ Harvesting Seeks Asylum in Switzerla
- 14 years ago
Calls are mounting on Switzerland to grant political asylum to a former Chinese security policeman from Xinjiang. The asylum seeker says he has highly sensitive information on what goes on in prisons run by the Chinese regime, including the practice of organ harvesting.
A witness to organ harvesting in China is now in immigration limbo in Switzerland.
Nijat Abudureyimu (Abu–Du-Ray–Yi-Mu) used to work at a prison in north-western Xinjiang Province. His job was to lead prisoners from their cells to their executions.
But, according to the Epoch Times, these executions weren’t conventional. Police would shoot the prisoners in a way that would not kill them, so that their organs would be in prime condition to be taken out for transplant surgeries.
The Uighur security agent worked at the prison of Liuwandao from 1993 to 1998. In a recent interview with Swiss newspaper Le Matin, Abudureyimu said (quote) “I saw many scenes of torture … an electrical appliance on women's genitals…the electric shocks, the scream.”
Abudureyimu fled Xinjiang in 2006. His refugee application in Norway was rejected, and while waiting to be assessed in Italy, he fled to Switzerland after feeling threatened when a Chinese man photographed him at an Italian refugee camp.
Alim Seytoff from the World Uighur Congress says Abudureyimu needs to be granted asylum for his own safety.
“It is our hope that Swiss government, in light of his unique situation, will consider granting him political asylum in Switzerland. Because returning him to China is like sentencing him to death. The Chinese government will simply execute him.”.
Gutmann and other international human rights activists have been investigating claims that the Chinese regime has been systematically taking organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, and selling them for profit, since it began persecuting members of the spiritual group in 1999.
A witness to organ harvesting in China is now in immigration limbo in Switzerland.
Nijat Abudureyimu (Abu–Du-Ray–Yi-Mu) used to work at a prison in north-western Xinjiang Province. His job was to lead prisoners from their cells to their executions.
But, according to the Epoch Times, these executions weren’t conventional. Police would shoot the prisoners in a way that would not kill them, so that their organs would be in prime condition to be taken out for transplant surgeries.
The Uighur security agent worked at the prison of Liuwandao from 1993 to 1998. In a recent interview with Swiss newspaper Le Matin, Abudureyimu said (quote) “I saw many scenes of torture … an electrical appliance on women's genitals…the electric shocks, the scream.”
Abudureyimu fled Xinjiang in 2006. His refugee application in Norway was rejected, and while waiting to be assessed in Italy, he fled to Switzerland after feeling threatened when a Chinese man photographed him at an Italian refugee camp.
Alim Seytoff from the World Uighur Congress says Abudureyimu needs to be granted asylum for his own safety.
“It is our hope that Swiss government, in light of his unique situation, will consider granting him political asylum in Switzerland. Because returning him to China is like sentencing him to death. The Chinese government will simply execute him.”.
Gutmann and other international human rights activists have been investigating claims that the Chinese regime has been systematically taking organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, and selling them for profit, since it began persecuting members of the spiritual group in 1999.