Dr. Wang Zhiyuan, lead researcher for the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, says the cyberattack is a confession of guilt.
The website of the WOIPFG suffered a denial-of-service cyberattack that sporadically disabled the upholdjustice.org site for a week. The attack was in retaliation for a report published on the site in July 2023: “Deathbed Testimonies of a Falun Dafa Disciple Murdered by Live Organ Harvesting in 2019.”
Eva Fu recounts the episode for The Epoch Times (September 9, 2023):
A New York–based research group became the target of malicious cyberattacks almost immediately after publishing testimony of a whistleblower doctor’s encounter with a Falun Gong practitioner who had her kidney removed against her will in China. The woman was a victim of the communist regime’s forced organ harvesting and perished not long after her conversation with the doctor, according to the whistleblower.
In April 2019, Zhang Xiuqin, 46, briefly survived an operation to remove one of her kidneys and relayed her experience to a doctor at a key military hospital in Harbin, the capital of China’s northernmost province Heilongjiang.
The whistleblower doctor, who is unnamed to protect her safety, provided a video recording of this conversation to the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to tracking the regime’s forced organ harvesting abuse. The organization published a transcript of the recording, as well as a transcript of the doctor’s testimony on July 17….
“They were definitely afraid,” Dr. Wang told The Epoch Times. “Just think about how fast they reacted.
“If they didn’t do anything wrong, why so agitated? They could have used the media as an outlet to attack us and put the matter to an end. But they dared not breathe a word in public.”
Dr. Torsten Trey, executive director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, says the cyberattack confirms “that the news about the forced organ harvesting case in the Chinese hospital must be correct. The hacking attack indicates that the video recording is authentic.”
In 2006, another CCP response to testimony about its organ harvesting likewise ended up confirming the authenticity of the testimony. An undercover WOIPFG investigator recorded a conversation with Dr. Lu Guoping of Guangxi Minzu Hospital in southern China in which Dr. Guoping admitted that his hospital was harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners against their will. Chinese media then peddled an interview with Dr. Guoping in which he denied participating in the earlier interview about his hospital’s organ harvesting. But his voice was so distinctive that the denial itself served to confirm that he had indeed divulged what he divulged to WOIPFG’s undercover investigator.
