On Sept. 3, 2025, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were caught on a hot mic discussing the possibility of extending human lifespans to 150 years through organ transplants. Their conversation has renewed attention on China’s horrifying practice of forced organ harvesting—a system that targets prisoners of conscience and has made China a top destination for transplant tourism, known for its impossibly short wait times.
Now, a powerful documentary exposing this atrocity and the scale of human rights’ abuses will be screened in Chester County next month free of charge. Hosted by the “End Forced Organ Harvesting Rotary Satellite Club,” the film, titled “State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China” will be screened on Nov. 1 at the Chester County Library in Exton, Pennsylvania, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session. The film was previously shown in Doylestown and Northampton, Pennsylvania.
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Unthinkable crimes
Honored with more than 50 international awards and recognized as an official contender for Best Documentary Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, “State Organs” follows two Chinese families as they search for their missing loved ones — detained by police and never seen again. Their 20-year quest reveals the truth behind a Chinese state-run organ harvesting industry that has claimed countless innocent lives.
Among those raising awareness locally is longtime Chester County resident Ann F. Corson, M.D., part of a growing movement of physicians worldwide calling for an end to China’s transplant abuses.
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“This issue is closer to home than people would imagine,” Dr. Corson explains. “U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals train surgeons from mainland China who then go back to participate in a medical field that sources vital organs through a kill-on-demand process of systematized murder. U.S. pharmaceutical and medical supply companies do business with the Chinese market. In today’s globalized society, we can’t say that atrocities taking place across the globe have nothing to do with us. And I feel personally obligated to do something about it.”
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State-sponsored abuses
The 18th Dr. Corson in six generations of her family, she earned her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1982 and is board certified in Family Medicine and Integrative Holistic Medicine. From 2003 to 2022, her solo practice in Chester County specialized in treating chronic diseases. In 2016, she joined Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) — an international NGO nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for its work to expose these crimes.
In 2020, a U.K.-based independent China Tribunal confirmed that forced organ harvesting has taken place in China for over two decades, primarily targeting practitioners of Falun Gong, a peaceful mind-body meditation practice persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since the late 1990s. The CCP’s campaign of arrests, torture, and imprisonment of Falun Gong adherents created a ready pool of victims for the state-run organ trade.
Dr. Jessica D. Russo, a DAFOH colleague of Dr. Corson and native of Southeastern Pennsylvania, will also speak at the Chester County Library screening. She describes how investigators first uncovered that Falun Gong practitioners were being killed for their organs.
Staggering numbers
“The earliest investigations revealed that in sync with the timeline of mass imprisonments of Falun Gong practitioners, China’s infrastructure for performing organ transplant operations grew by 300%,” says Dr. Russo. “Patients were regularly able to receive matching organs within days or weeks. The more they paid, the faster a match could be found. The unfathomably short wait times and the exponential growth of China’s transplant infrastructure were evidence of a sudden abundance of transplantable organs. This abundance came at a time when China had no system for voluntary organ donation and at the precise moment when China’s prisons and labor camps were suddenly overflowing with vulnerable, wrongfully detained Falun Gong practitioners.”
A Falun Gong survivor who was imprisoned in China during that period will also join the panel to share his personal testimony.
The screening of “State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China” is presented by the “End Forced Organ Harvesting Rotary Satellite Club” and will take place on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, at 1 p.m. at the Chester County Public Library. A Q&A will follow.
Chester County Public Library
450 Exton Square Parkway
Exton, PA, 19341
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