More than half a million people around the world have signed a petition calling for urgent action by the Group of Seven (G7) and other countries against the Chinese government’s alleged practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, according to a report by The Epoch Times cited by ANI.

The petition was started in July 2024 by two organisations, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) and the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China. Since its launch, the campaign has collected 505,970 signatures from people in 34 countries as of December 15, 2025, organisers said.

Supporters hope the petition will push the leaders of the G7 countries- the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom as well as other democracies, including Argentina, Australia, India, Israel, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan, to take a stand against what they call serious and ongoing abuses by the Chinese Communist government.

The petition focuses on allegations that the Chinese regime is involved in extracting organs from prisoners of conscience, targeting groups such as Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities.

Organisers say that hundreds of lawmakers around the world have already committed to introducing legislation to prohibit forced organ harvesting, and they see the large number of signatures as evidence of growing public concern. The campaign’s organisers have set a new target: to reach one million signatures by June 2026. They say the petition will remain open regardless of changes in political leadership in the countries involved.

Dr Torsten Trey, Executive Director of DAFOH, spoke about what the petition aims to achieve. He said the petition was meant to directly inform governments about the public demand to end what he described as “dreadful transplant abuses.”

Dr Trey was quoted as saying, “We present the issue of forced organ harvesting directly to sovereign governments to inform them about the public’s demand to end such dreadful transplant abuses in our civilised world, while also addressing it to the executive branch, the decision-makers within those governments.”

He added that seeing such international support is encouraging, explaining that the petition not only raises awareness about China’s 25 years of persecution against Falun Gong, but also provides a way for ordinary people to take part in efforts to end these alleged abuses.

The petition draws attention to findings from the London-based China Tribunal, which concluded in 2019 that the Chinese government had been involved in forced organ harvesting on a large scale, especially targeting Falun Gong practitioners. According to the petition, the government leaders of the 14 countries should jointly condemn these practices and put in place a coordinated action plan. It suggests steps including protecting citizens from receiving transplants in China, halting medical cooperation related to transplants, holding annual parliamentary hearings on the issue, and launching investigations to pursue accountability.

Trey also noted that DAFOH had earlier conducted a petition campaign between 2012 and 2018, directed at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which received over three million signatures. However, he said that the effort faced “a complex network of rules and regulations,” and the United Nations did not take any verifiable action in response. Starting the new petition took three months to organise, Trey said. He emphasised that this campaign will continue even if political leadership changes in the countries being urged to act.

Supporters of the petition say that the number of signatures reflects widespread public concern about forced organ harvesting and its human rights implications. They believe that growing global support can help push governments to respond more proactively. “Every freedom-loving individual and every person of faith desires to see this horrific and gruesome persecution, along with the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, come to an end,” Trey was quoted as saying, underlining the emotional and moral weight that organisers attach to the issue.

The petition comes as activists and lawmakers continue to draw public attention to alleged human rights abuses related to transplant practices in China. While the Chinese government has consistently denied involvement in forced organ harvesting, petition organisers say international pressure, especially from democratic nations, is critical to stopping it.

Organisers hope that once the petition reaches its new goal of one million signatures, it will carry even more political weight when presented to leaders of the G7 and allied nations. According to the petition, the coordinated action plan should also include independent monitoring and reporting mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability if governments decide to move forward with policy responses.