(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners in the New York area held a press conference in front of City Hall at 11a.m. on April 5, 2006 to condemn the CCP's harvesting living Falun Gong practitioners' organs in concentration camps. They called on the American government, the United Nations and the international community to conduct an immediate investigation into concentration camps on site in China and to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong.

Levi, (second from the left) from the Falun Dafa Information Center, condemns CCP's persecution of Falun Gong.

Falun Gong practitioners rally in front of the City Hall in the snow to protest the killing of their fellow practitioners in China by the CCP.

It was sunny on the morning of April 5, but it suddenly started raining around 10 a.m. When the practitioners got ready for their rally, it started snowing heavily. Snowflakes turned to water as they dropped, as if the heavens were crying. Falun Gong practitioner Dai Bing said, "It is a terrible wrong! Both heaven and man are indignant!"

Falun Gong practitioners unfurled their banners in heavy snow. Several witnesses to the persecution gave speeches to expose and condemn the atrocities of the CCP.

Spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Information Center, Levi Browde, said that seven years ago, the CCP launched a persecution of Falun Gong practitioners who pursue Truth, Compassion and Tolerance. They used forced labor camps and jails to kill thousands of Falun Gong practitioners. Countless families were broken up with family members dispersed and missing. Recently, witnesses exposed a concentration camp in Sujiatun in Northeast China, where Falun Gong practitioners' organs are harvested for sale while they are still alive. According to the most recent investigation report by the International Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, live organ transplants using Falun Gong practitioners' organs has taken place in at least eight cities. There is no way to allow such an unprecedented atrocity to continue. We must take immediate action to stop it!

New York resident Hu Zhihua's brother has been imprisoned for four years for practicing Falun Gong. Shortly after he was released in 2004, the CCP's police abducted him secretly. He has been missing now for close to six months. Mr. Hu was deeply saddened on hearing the news of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp. He called for the international community to immediately investigate his brother's case.

Ms. Li Weixun and Ms. Mu Xiangjie, who had been rescued to the United States by UNHCR, testified to the brutality of the persecution with their personal experience.

Ms. Li said, "I was greatly shaken but not surprised when I heard about the live-harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners' organs, because this regime has accumulated so much debt of blood. When I was detained in Sujiatun Detention Center in 2002, I saw jailers prepare a large amount of tableware. But it wasn't put into use. It was said that the Falun Gong practitioners who had been scheduled to be transferred there ended up being transferred to another place. Now thinking back, they were more than likely transferred to the concentration camp. A fellow Falun Gong practitioner of mine has been missing for years." Ms. Li called for Falun Gong practitioners' families in China to look for their family members right away.

Ms. Mu said her first thought on hearing about the concentration camp was "The CCP could do such a thing." When in prison, she witnessed a woman Falun Gong practitioner who was deprived of sleep for days suddenly die. The prison claimed that she had died from a heart attack. Another 48-year-old woman practitioner was arrested for appealing in Beijing in September 2001. She refused to tell her name for fear of implicating her family members and workplace back home. Policemen put a big wooden board on her lower abdomen and stepped on it back and forth. She was still bruised after a month. It was too terrible to be seen! Policemen threatened that practitioners who refused to tell their names would be sent to northwest or northeast China. Now she realized they were referring to the concentration camps.

Mr. He Haiyin, who is in charge of Global Rescue of Falun Gong Practitioners, made an urgent call for rescue. Sujiatun Concentration Camp was established in 2001. There are 36 concentration camps like this in China. Given the brutal nature of the CCP, it will kill witnesses to destroy evidence if the international community doesn't take immediate action. It is the most urgent matter! All governments and international organizations must take immediate action to stop the murder!

Pointing at the flying snow, Mr. He said, "Qing Ming Day is Chinese Memorial day, especially for the dead who have been wronged. The coincidence of the snow and our rally today is to show the terrible wrong against the Falun Gong practitioners who have been dismembered alive in the CCP's concentration camp. After the persecution of the Jews 60 years ago, we have heard the pledge of "Never Again." However, there has been no action taken even when Falun Gong practitioners are gang-raped, dismembered and burned alive. It is a shame for the people living in free and civilized society."

Falun Gong practitioners also questioned the Body Exhibition being held in New York. According to the sponsor, Premier Exhibitions, all bodies came from China. Some were bodies nobody claimed. Falun Gong practitioners suspect that some were their missing fellow Falun Gong practitioners. They will investigate the source of those bodies.