“Good journalism questions the land of a thousand taboos even at the risk of uncanny and disturbing findings.”

—  Marco Respinti

Source: "China’s Human Harvest and Illegal Organ Trade: Publish or Perish?" https://bitterwinter.org/a-universal-declaration-on-combating-and-preventing-forced-organ-harvesting/

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