Beijing, China - The Chinese government has termed as "absurd lies" accusations by the Falun Gong that its followers were being killed for organ harvesting.
"No one will believe the absurd lies concocted by the Falun Gong cult followers," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a press conference Wednesday.
Falun Gong is an ancient Chinese practice for achieving moral and spiritual elevation through exercises and meditation.
In July 1999, the government had banned Falun Gong, presuming that a very large number of followers of the sect could pose a threat to their ruling power.
According to the Falun Gong, more than 6,000 of their followers were imprisoned at the Sujiatun concentration camp in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning province, and two thirds of them were killed for their organs and later cremated.
Qin, however, said denied the existence of the "concentration camp".
He added that Falun Gong followers had themselves realised the absurdity of their lie and changed their statement that the concentration camp was established in a small hospital.
"Can a small hospital contain 6,000 people?" Qin asked." Such an absurd lie is not worth refuting and no one will believe it."