AMID the festivities and frivolities of Race Week, a car tour with a message passed through Bathurst.
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Members of the SOS National Car Tour for Stopping Organ Harvesting were in the city last week to raise awareness of what they say is a systemic practice in China.
The tour, which participants say will visit 200 cities and towns, is being held to raise awareness of what they say is widespread forced organ harvesting from practitioners of Falun Gong in China.
Falun Gong, its followers say, is a traditional Chinese spiritual and meditation practice that has similarities to tai chi or yoga.
Christine Hond, one of the participants on the tour, said organisers hope to encourage members of the communities they are passing through to put pressure on their politicians to call for an end to the practice.
She said they also want people to know that they might be unwittingly involved in this crime if they travel to China to have an organ transplanted.
“It’s happening. People are being killed,” she said.