Agents or fans of the Chinese Communist Party in the United States and Taiwan are so afraid of the documentary “State Organs,” which reports on China’s state-sanctioned industry of murdering people in order to extract and sell their organs, that they are threatening the lives of “journalists, theaters, the police, and local lawmakers” (“Chinese Operatives Escalate Threats to Stop Film on Forced Organ Harvesting,” December 1, 2024, Epoch Times).
Threats of mass shootings. Bomb detonations. Systematic hacking.
At a rate of roughly one threat every two days over the past two months, threats in Chinese have been directed to the inboxes of journalists, theaters, the police, and local lawmakers, mostly based in the United States and Taiwan. The threats have one goal: to stop the screening of a film called “State Organs.”
The documentary, now a contender in the 2025 Academy Awards, trails two families’ journeys in search of their missing loved ones against the backdrop of communist China’s grisly state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting.
“State Organs” has screened in 15 Taiwanese cities since October as well as in New York’s Manhattan, San Francisco, and Japan….
At least two emails came with images of guns attached, with warnings that shots would be fired at audience members if the theaters didn’t cancel the film. Yet another email, this time directed at a reporter, claimed to have implanted explosives in her media headquarters in Taipei that would be set off unless she deleted a report on the film.
So far, the threats are only threats. We have no reports yet of actual shootings or bombings at theaters. Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau is investigating the matter in Taiwan and is providing security at screenings.
Director Raymond Zhang told The Epoch Times: “Coverup, threats, and intimidation…this is how Chinese authorities treated the victims’ family, this is what is now happening [in the United States].”
The London-based China Tribunal in 2019 concluded that Falun Gong practitioners were a primary target for the CCP’s state-backed program of forced organ harvesting, which also markets its one-of-a-kind service with short waiting times to international medical tourists.
The issue “hits a sore spot for the CCP,” Zhang said. “It’s afraid to let the world know about this genocidal crime, and it’s been doing all it can to cover up this crime over the past 25 years.”…
“After World War Two, people said ‘never again,’ ” he said. “But it’s now happening.”
And, says Zhang, we can stop it from happening.
Sorry, but…
In some cases, perhaps many, threats by CCP loons aren’t necessary to prevent the film from being seen.
After expressing initial interest in “State Organs,” an Italian distributor quickly changed his mind, saying that works about the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong “have always been pushed away by Italian broadcasters.”
An American distributor said that distributing “State Organs” was not in the cards because doing so would jeopardize his firm’s access to the Chinese market.
How to see it
“State Organs” doesn’t seem to currently be in any theater in the U.S. But you can see it via hoopla, tubi, Amazon, or Microsoft.
