The "non-sedated" part is NOT "confirmed". This is just a claim, and a highly improbable one. There is no benefit to not anesthetizing patients for organ removal, and it's a hell of a lot easier to remove an organ without damaging it if the patient is not howling and writhing and having all the physiological reactions to extreme pain and stress. Sure, occasional incidents of inadvertent anesthesia failure are possible -- happens more often than we like to think during routine surgeries in the US -- but the idea that deliberate non-sedation is a normal part of China's very real forced organ harvesting industry is absurd. This kind of story is usually circulated for the purpose of discrediting the entire subject, i.e. including the fact that forced organ harvesting is a huge industry in China, with government approval.