Several police officers followed Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Mingliang to his workplace on April 11th, 2012. Before he entered the building, four officers shoved him down to the ground and handcuffed him. Mr. Wang resisted the arrest and shouted “Falun Gong is good!” They drove his mini-van away and held him at the Dongjiang Police Station. The police went to Mr. Wang's office and took away DVDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, books and calenders from his locker. Mr. Wang was taken to Dongjiang Police Station, where he was interrogated on a torture device known as the iron chair.

The guards at Siping Prison in Jilin Province have been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners for years. They have employed various methods including solitary confinement, electric shock, beatings, forced labour and extension of terms, in an attempt to force practitioners to give up their belief. Mr. Shao Changpu was sentenced to 10 years in Siping Prison. Because he spoke out against the persecution he was severely beaten by guards. They also shocked him with electric batons, attempting to force him to write a repentance statement to renounce practising Falun Gong.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qu Liling is disabled. On April 24th, 2012, she went with another practitioner surnamed Tan to the General Management Office of Mingcheng Township. They tried to get back Ms. Tan's pension, which the office had held illegally. The office director Wu Dechun, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and police from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) arrested and detained the two practitioners in the Panshi City Detention Station.

A handful of MPs gathered near Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada, on Wednesday to discuss the plight of Falun Gong on the 13th anniversary of the largest peaceful protest in China since the Tiananmen Square massacre. Shawn Li, the president of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, said many groups are persecuted in China, including Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims, but none as harshly as Falun Gong adherents. MP Brent Rathgeber described the current abuses, which include evidence of forced organ harvesting, as “disturbing.”

I actually first came into contact with Dafa at the end of 2002. However, due to various reasons, I didn't obtain the Fa then. Now I have come to understand that the reason for that was because of interference from the old forces. It was compassionate Teacher who woke me up. Since I've obtained the Fa, the beauty that Dafa has brought to me is beyond description.

“I admire Falun Gong.” An older man said, “Falun Gong! Mainland is afraid of it. But I feel Falun Gong helps people improve their health. The CCP should not persecute it.”

Zhuge Liang was a Langya native living during the Three Kingdoms era. He was a renowned statesman and strategist. His highest position was prime minister. He wrote this “Letter to son” to his son Zhuge Qiao.