Local Falun Gong practitioner, Ben Larkman, said he has been practicing Falun Gong for about nine years and now has greatly reduced stress levels and no back pain.
“Falun Gong can really just be described in three words—truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance,” Larkman said. “For just trying to be good, kind people, they are being killed in China—not just a handful, but hundreds of thousands of people. We have stories coming out every day of them being tortured, killed, and labor camps.”
China Peace and Democracy Federation leader, Tang Boqiao, said things in China are deteriorating daily. More and more unrest and riots are happening as the Chinese people's dissatisfaction spills over. “We're going to see an explosion,” he said. “This explosion is going to profoundly change the course of Chinese history.” 
“It will be very unfortunate if the U.N. forsakes its mission and sides with the despot regime rather than the 1.5 billion Chinese people who are desperate for freedom.”
Several Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted by the Chinese regime and escaped to the U.S. shared their stories.
Li Ming was arrested seven times after the crackdown on Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999.
“In the seven years I remained in China after my first arrest, I suffered more than 20 types of torture,” Li said. “I was in a small cage for long periods of time, I was force-fed, my limbs were tied to a bed and I was injected with unknown drugs.”
Li talked of the Chinese regime extending its persecution into the borders of America in the form of Chinese communities being controlled by embassies and encouraged to persecute local Falun Gong practitioners. In Flushing over the past year, there have been many cases of assault against practitioners, with some perpetrators being arrested and sentenced for hate crimes.
Liu Yan is 58 years old. After appealing at the communist leadership compound in Beijing, she was arrested and beaten all over her body.
“I was beaten by mop handles and bled internally. My internal organs were ruptured,” Liu said.
In 2002, guards ordered drug addicts to beat Liu until she could no longer walk. “In 2008 I was transferred to Inner Mongolia. They cuffed me to an iron bed and refused me food and sleep. I was beaten in the face with electric batons.”
Liu's mother was tortured to death in 2007. She was over 80 years old. “It's been 10 years since Falun Gong practitioners lost their rights to their belief,” Liu said. “People of the world need to stand together and stop this atrocity.”
