(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of April 13, invited by the Epoch Times Newspaper, Falun Gong Association spokesman Erping Zhang and practitioner Yuzhi Wang who was once persecuted in the Wanjia Labor Camp exposed the CCP's crimes of harvesting organs from living practitioners and called for a thorough investigation of the 7-year persecution at the National Press Club.

Erping Zhang, spokesman of the Falun Dafa Association

Yuzhi Wang, once persecuted nearly to death in a Chinese labor camp

Sujiatun Concentration Camp is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Mr. Zhang said that the exposed Sujiatun Concentration Camp is just the tip of the iceberg. More appalling atrocities involving more practitioners are still being hidden inside labor camps in China.

Mr. Zhang said: "From all the new evidence, organ harvesting from living practitioners is not only practiced in Sujiatun, it is a widespread phenomenon in Chinese labor camps."

He pointed out that the CCP authority responded to the charge of organ harvesting after three weeks of silence.

"It tells us that the CCP has just completed destroying evidences in the camp. It is not a surprise for such an evil regime to do so as it had never acknowledged its crimes. In the past 7 years, the CCP has tried its best to cover up the brutal persecution of Falun Gong."

Persecution survivor Yuzhi Wang made a special trip from Canada to Washington DC to expose the CCP's atrocities. In Wanjia Labor Camp, she barely escaped being killed for organs.

With tears, Ms. Wang said: "If my organs were not diagnosed as "Useless", perhaps I wouldn't be standing here and giving this testimony."

Ms. Wang said: "Recently, media exposed that there was a hospital in Sujiatun which routinely harvested organs from Falun Gong practitioners and cremated the remains to destroy evidence. This reminded me of my experience in Wanjia labor camp, where I was taken to four hospitals to for examinations of my blood and organs."

While detained in the Wanjia labor camp in Heilongjiang province, the 610 Office and guards took her to four major hospitals in Harbin to have blood tests and secret diagnosis of the health of her organs. After all the four hospitals unanimously concluded that all her organs were "useless", the "610 Office" suddenly lost interest in her and even stopped monitoring her. Consequently, with help form a kindhearted nurse, she contacted her friends and escaped to overseas.

Ms. Wang hopes that the international community will pay close attention to the ongoing organ harvesting in Chinese labor camps and to form a delegation to go to China to perform independent investigations of the CCP's atrocities.

During the press conference, a recording of the testimony of a witness was played. The witness' ex-husband participated in organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners.

The witness said that her ex-husband participated in operations to remove practitioners' organs. As a brain surgeon, he participated in removing corneas from practitioners, including some living practitioners.

The witness said that this hospital harvested organs, including liver and corneas from practitioners on a large scale. The remains were then cremated in a modified incinerator. Many of these practitioners were weak and some were still very strong and healthy. They were all arrested illegally, and none has left there alive.

The witness said Falun Gong practitioners who were imprisoned there came mostly from Dabei Prison, Masanjia Labor Camp, and other prisons in Shenyang, or they were Falun Gong practitioners arrested in parks or residential homes. Because they refused to denounce Falun Gong, they were arrested without formal warrants, and their families did not know their situation. Many did not even have their names [recorded]. In addition, since the Chinese authority exercises a policy of "not being responsible" for killing Falun Gong practitioners, the death of Falun Gong practitioners is not a big issue for prisons.

Erping Zhang said that from several recent investigations we have drawn this conclusion: Genocide to kill all concentration camp victims and eye witnesses is happening on a large scale in China.

"Considering the urgency of the situation, the Falun Gong Association has taken the initiative to form "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG)", to investigate the persecution in all labor camps, jails, hospitals and other related facilities. We will invite credible organizations to join us to conduct an independent investigation in China." Mr. Zhang said.