1. Ethan Gutmann was born on September 13,1958 and is an American writer, researcher, author, and a senior research fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation whose work has investigated surveillance and organ harvesting in China.
Ethan Gutmann graduated from Cranbrook Boys' School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of International Affairs at Columbia University.
Ethan Gutmann's writing on China includes two books, Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal and The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem.
Ethan Gutmann has testified before the US Congress, the European Parliament, and the United Nations.
Ethan Gutmann is a co-founder of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China and is a China Studies research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
In 2011, two lawsuits citing Ethan Gutmann's work were filed in US federal courts against Cisco Systems, alleging that its technology enabled the government of China to monitor, capture, and kill Chinese adherents of the Falun Gong new religious movement.
Evidence of Cisco's activities in China had become public in Ethan Gutmann's book Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal.
Ethan Gutmann wrote that he interviewed over 100 witnesses including Falun Gong survivors, doctors, policemen, and camp administrators.
Ethan Gutmann estimated that 65,000 Falun Gong practitioners were killed for their organs from 2000 to 2008, and that between 450,000 and 1 million Falun Gong practitioners were detained at any given time.
Ethan Gutmann told the Toronto Star in 2014 that in total "the number of casualties is close to 100,000".
Ethan Gutmann was one of the key interviewees in Human Harvest, a 2014 Peabody Award winning documentary on organ harvesting in China, as well as the PBS documentary Hard to Believe.
Ethan Gutmann interviewed dissidents including of Falun Gong, Tibetans, Uyghurs and House Christians.
Ethan Gutmann has said that China is organ harvesting from Uyghurs in its prison camps in the Xinjiang region.
In November 2020, Ethan Gutmann told Radio Free Asia that a hospital in Aksu, China, allowing local officials to streamline the organ harvesting process and provide a steady stream of harvested organs from Uyghurs.
In Congressional testimony, Ethan Gutmann estimated that 2.5 to 5 percent of Uyghur detainees have been selected for organ harvesting in the camps.
Ethan Gutmann stated he had not said that Ko was involved in the organ trade and that he might have been misinterpreted.
In 2017, Ethan Gutmann was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, according to articles in Haaretz and The Journal.