Human rights and government collusion.

Britain used to be a place considered to have principles...For anyone abroad who is appalled by our present government's obsession with nuclear power and nuclear weapons at any cost, especially human, I can only add that I am also appalled at the government's decision to ask for Chinese involvement in designing and building new plants... and so are a lot of other people.
According to Amnesty International, since July there has been a crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists in China. The state of affairs on October 13th was, to the best of their knowledge,  248  lawyers and activists targeted, of whom 28 were still missing or in police custody. (1)
One of those interviewed by the police has also now been "placed under residential surveillance as part of a wider crackdown on activists who are resisting the removal of crosses from churches." Residential surveillance at a designated place is nothing like house arrest...it is far worse (2) and (3).
Prisoners of conscience... such as some Christians, members of Falun Gong (a banned religious practice in China) Tibetans, Uighurs and other vulnerable people, may also face death.
Chinese officials announced  that there would be an end to the unethical organ harvesting from executed prisoners by January 2015, but the prisoners of conscience were excluded from the announcement.
DAFOH, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, have considerable evidence about this crime. To quote from their website:
 "In 2006, first witnesses and then the Kilgour & Matas Report alleged that organs were harvested from living prisoners of conscience, mostly from detained Falun Gong practitioners. The data suggest that organ procurement was “on demand” because organs were harvested without acceptable consent and the donors were killed in the process."
 The last sentence..."the donors were killed in the process." means exactly what it says and the crime has been practiced on a massive scale. 
http://www.dafoh.org/unethical-organ-harvesting/
If you are so minded, you can join over two million people who have signed the petition to the UN calling for an end to this murder.   The closing date for the petition this year is November 30th.

 (1).  https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2015/08/china-list-of-lawyers-and-activists-targeted/
 http://chinalawandpolicy.com/tag/residential-surveillance/
(2) https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/29/chinas-secret-detention-of-lawyers-threatens-the-rule-of-law/
(3) http://chinalawandpolicy.com/tag/residential-surveillance/

Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting. A petition to the UN. China's secret state transplant business.

One of the most important petitions I think I have ever come across is the petition to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for the immediate end of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China.
Incidentally, this isn't just Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted, but other groups including Uighurs, Tibetans and house Christians.
The petition is open for you to add your support until November 30th 2014.  To quote from the DAFOH website, "Between July and December 2013, nearly a million and a half people from 50 different countries and regions signed the petition to call for an end to this unprecedented evil.  On December 13th the EU adopted an urgent resolution on organ harvesting in China."
There is a lot more information and the link to the petition on the DAFOH home page. http://www.dafoh.org/ There is also a very good video.
In May, the International Conference on Organ Transplantation took place in London and  Falon Gong practitioners in the UK gathered outside the conference venue in Westminster to raise public awareness of the way organ transplant operations are carried out in China and to collect signatures for the petition.
As well as the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting website, there is more information and up to date news at the website of the International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China.  I would urge anyone who would like to really understand the issue and not be placated by official statements, to visit their news and articles section... I found them all to be very helpful... but especially the public lecture, given in the University of Toronto by David Matas, a lawyer who knows a great deal about  human rights violations in different countries, including China. The lecture is entitled "Flip flopping in China over sourcing organs from prisoners".
Thank you.