(Minghui.org) The persecution of Falun Gong is considered a major concern for China, as reported by ABC news prior to the G20 summit. World leaders and media reporters gathered in Brisbane, Australia for the G20 Summit on November 15-16, 2014.

Falun Gong practitioners raise awareness in Brisbane, Australia before the G20 Summit.

The Australian ABC News reported on the most concerning issues in G20 member countries on November 14, via interviews with activists. Falun Gong practitioner John Meng, a former teacher at Tsinghua University, Beijing, was interviewed.

Falun Gong practitioner John Meng, a former teacher at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Mr. Meng said in the interview, “I started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. Because I knew this is a great practice, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution is wrong. So I told other people the facts of the persecution. As a result, police arrested me and I was sentenced to a nine-year imprisonment. Prison guards tortured me, including brutal beatings, forced brainwashing, sleep deprivation, and forced labor.

“I was forced to have blood drawn several times. Now I know this was used in a database for forced live organ harvesting.”

He concluded by saying, “I wish that President Xi Jinping, as China's new leader, stops the persecution and brings the main perpetrator, Jiang Zemin (the former CCP head), and his followers to justice.”

Leader of the Australian Greens: Prime Minister Abbott Should Raise the Human Rights Issue While Meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping

Senator Christine Milne, leader of the parliamentary caucus of the Australian Greens, said during an interview, “I always have a strong stand for the rights of Tibetans, Uighurs, and Falun Gong. We believe that China has a truly important relationship with Australia. But that relationship can be strengthened by standing up for human rights and recognizing the rights of all people. Otherwise, it would be diminished if we just talk about trade and dollars. And it would diminish our standing in the global context if we fail to raise this very important issue of human rights while President Xi Jinping is in Australia.

“I certainly think that the issue of organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners is wrong, and it is a matter that the Prime Minster should raise in the context of upholding human rights, and upholding people's right to practice freedom of religion.”

Amnesty International: Advocate International Cooperation to Stop Human Rights Violations

Amnesty International expresses concerns regarding many cases of Chinese human rights violations, including those involving Falun Gong practitioners. A representative from the organization said during an interview, “Amnesty works on the basis of international solidarity. So we would encourage people who are concerned about human rights in another country to write to people in positions of power, various levels of government official to write to them, and bring up specific cases where they know people are being persecuted, to highlight the fact that they know that it is going on, and they want that leader to do something about it.

“Obviously we are gravely concerned about the violation of human rights that happen in China and many of the countries where G20 leaders come from... We obviously respect people’s right to freedom of religion, freedom of expression and freedom of association, so any influences by any government to curtail that, is a violation of basic human rights.”