(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners rallied at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside of the United Nations during Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi's participation in an economic summit on the afternoon of June 24, 2009. They exposed and condemned the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) crimes against Falun Gong and called for all democratic countries to see clearly the CCP's wicked nature and to help stop the brutal persecution.

Falun Gong practitioners who had been rescued out of China talked about their personal experiences in the CCP's detention centers, labor camps, jails and brainwashing centers, where they almost died from torture.

Falun Gong practitioners rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside the United Nations

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yijie, a former Chinese official at the Department of Commerce in Beijing, said at the rally, "I can testify with my personal experience about the inhuman and appalling murder of Falun Gong practitioners in China. It is still going on. I have been imprisoned seven times because I refused to give up my belief in Falun Dafa. The head of the 610 Office Li Lanqing ordered that I be sent to a forced labor camp. During the 28 months in the labor camp, I was subjected to more than twenty methods of psychological torture and more than forty methods of physical torture. I have been confined in an iron cage. I have been tied to a bed and injected with unknown drugs. I have been denied the use of a restroom. Countless severe beatings caused injury to my lower back and legs. I almost lost my eyesight. I became deformed and slow in reaction. My hair turned gray. One time, I was forced to stand in a dark building for forty-two days without sleep."

Mr. Li Jianhui and his wife used to be successful businessmen. Their estate added up to be worth 10 million yuan. Because they refused to give up their belief in Falun Dafa, the CCP confiscated their belongings and threw them into prison. They barely escaped death. Mr. Li was sentenced to prison for four years. His wife Dai Ying was sentenced to five years in prison.

Falun Gong practitioner Dai Ying relates her experience of being tortured.

Dai Ying's left eye was blinded by electric baton shocks. She said, "They used high-voltage electric batons to shock my temples and under my nose. My head was in such pain that I thought it was cracked open. I struggled and cried. But nobody could hear me. My left eye was blind the next morning. My right eye was blurry. They forced a sharpened bamboo tube into my throat and fed me concentrated salt solution and spicy water. I clenched my teeth. They used a screw driver to pry on my teeth. A lot of my teeth either became loose or fell out."

Ms. Dai recalled that more than 160 Falun Gong practitioners were forced to have their organs checked during her detention at the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp in 2004. "Many doctors from Foshan Hospital came to the camp to draw blood from Falun Gong practitioners. We heard that multiple tests had to be done. Now I know it was in preparation for organ harvesting."

Liu Yan talks about her experience of being tortured.

Fifty-eight-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Liu Yan is originally from Beijing. She said at the rally, "In March and July 2001, I was taken twice to a brainwashing center held by the '610 Office.' I was beaten and tortured during the day and deprived of sleep at night. Employees of the '610 Office' and policemen ordered criminals to hit my head and legs with a mop. My leg muscles were torn and bleeding. Lymph glands on my right leg were infected. I had to have surgery."

Ms. Liu was thrown into forced labor camp twice from 2002 to 2006. She was brutally force-fed. Her right hip and legs were injured. Her left eye was beaten out of its socket. On July 16, 2008, she was sent to a labor camp in Neimenggu Province. She was hung up and deprived of food and sleep. Her face was shocked with electric batons. They drew her blood eleven times within six months. She barely escaped death.

Ms. Yu Zhenjie, another fifty-eight-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, is originally from Heilongjiang Province. She said, "They burned my face, neck and body with electric batons. I fainted when being hung up. I was injected with unknown drugs, which made my abdomen and back as painful as if I were in labor. I fainted from the pain. When the doctor opened my eye lids, I couldn't remember anything. My younger brother and his wife were sentenced to thirteen and eleven years in prison for practicing Falun Gong. I hope that the American government and all kind-hearted people will help rescue them."

Dr. Pan Qi is from Dalian, China. She said, "I was beaten, shocked and forced to do hard labor in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. I have been deprived of sleep and have been frozen. I was cuffed to a bed board for forty days. On April 5, 2004, they force-fed me with drugs and salt water. I felt dizzy and needed to vomit. Ten days later, I had symptoms of kidney failure. Two Falun Gong practitioners I know have died from force-feeding."

Falun Gong practitioner Dr. Wang Wenyi said that hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners in China are still facing torture every day. Some have died from organ harvesting. "We call for democratic countries around the world to see clearly the inhuman nature of the CCP and help stop the persecution."

Falun Gong practitioners at the rally hope the Chinese Foreign Minister will see the tide of quitting the CCP, help stop the persecution and leave himself a way out.

Many people were fascinated by the Falun Gong exercises and wanted to learn them

The Falun Gong practitioners' activity started at 10 a.m. Despite the rain, it last until 6 p.m. They said that their efforts won't stop until the persecution is ended.