Editing Falun Gong (section)

===Deaths===
Due to the difficulty in corroborating reports of torture deaths in China, estimates of the number of Falun Gong practitioners who have been killed as a result of the persecution vary widely. In 2009, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that, according to [[human rights]] groups, the repressions had claimed "at least 2,000" lives.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Jacobs (journalist) |date=27 April 2009 |title=China Still Presses Crusade Against Falun Gong |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/world/asia/28china.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613054258/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/world/asia/28china.html |archive-date=13 June 2017 |access-date=16 August 2017 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> [[Amnesty International]] said at least 100 Falun Gong practitioners had reportedly died in the 2008 calendar year, either in custody or shortly after their release.<ref>Amnesty International. [https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/china/report-2008 "China – Amnesty International Report 2008"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140818123222/http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/china/report-2008 |date=18 August 2014 }}.</ref> Investigative journalist [[Ethan Gutmann]] estimated 65,000 Falun Gong were killed for their organs from 2000 to 2008 based on extensive interviews,<ref name=Gutmann2012/> while researchers [[David Kilgour]] and [[David Matas]] reported, "the source of 41,500 transplants for the six-year period 2000 to 2005 is unexplained".<ref name=orgharv/><ref>{{cite book |first1=David |last1=Kilgour |first2=David |last2=Matas |title=Bloody Harvest: The killing of Falun Gong for their organs |publisher=Seraphim Editions |year=2009 |isbn=978-0980887976}}</ref>

Chinese authorities do not publish statistics on Falun Gong practitioners killed amidst the crackdown. In individual cases, however, authorities have denied that deaths in custody were due to torture.<ref name="DE">{{cite news
| work = The Wall Street Journal
| title= A Deadly Exercise
| date = 20 April 2000
| last = Johnson| first = Ian
| publisher= Dow Jones
}} Reprinted in {{Cite web|website=The Pulitzer Prizes|title=The 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting: Ian Johnson of ''The Wall Street Journal''|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ian-johnson|access-date=2023-02-10|language=en|archive-date=27 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227202142/https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ian-johnson|url-status=live}}</ref>