The Judgment states: "All members of the Tribunal, Counsel to the Tribunal, volunteer lawyers and the editor of this Judgment have worked entirely pro bono publico (for the public good) which for those unfamiliar with the term or practice means completely without financial return of any kind.
"[3] The Tribunal was initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC).
[4] The China Tribunal was initiated by the charity ETAC, of which "a minority of its committee members are Falun Gong practitioners".
[5] The China Tribunal held 5 days of public hearings in December 2018 and April 2019, in which over 50 fact witnesses, experts, and investigators testified.
[6][7] On 17 June 2019, the China Tribunal pronounced its "final judgment" on organ harvesting in China, concluding that the Chinese Communist Party was, beyond reasonable doubt, guilty of committing crimes against humanity against China's Uyghur Muslim and Falun Gong populations, and that removing hearts and other organs from living victims constituted one of the worst mass atrocities of this century.