During this years Chinese New Years celebrations in Paris, France, practitioners handed out information on Falun Gong and also balloons with "Falun Dafa is good" on them. So many balloons were handed out that they could be seen everywhere.

Democracy Party Chairman 'Yeung accused the government of "political calculation" to show that those who agreed with the legislation outnumbered those against the laws, which rights groups fear could curtail basic freedoms. "I think this is unacceptable," he told local radio.'

Yurong's husband brought their 14-year-old son and rushed to the People's Hospital. In the ward, Yurong was monitored 24 hours a day. In order to avoid responsibility, the police even ordered Yurong's husband to carry her to the courtroom to be tried even though she was near death.

The daughter, who had never left her mother before, became sick, and developed a fever from thinking of her mother all the time. Her grandfather twice brought the little girl to Qinhuangdao City and they were twice denied their request to see her mother, practitioner Wang Shumei. The officials there claimed that if the grandfather did not take away the little girl, they would hire a baby sitter rather than release Wang Shumei.

Dafa practitioners are often cuffed to the iron chairs or beds 24 hours a day, and are fed meagre portions of corn rolls and salted vegetables. Most of the practitioners detained in the mini-cells are cuffed to a bed even through the night. Sometimes, two hands were cuffed at the two sides of the bed frame for a whole night. Masanjia Forced Labour Camp tries every way to hide the existence of the hell-like mini-cells. This is the major spot where Dafa practitioners are tortured.

In this brainwashing centre, the vicious people adopted a tactic of continuous torture around the clock, once for 7 consecutive days, once for 5 days and another for 4 days. One day Ms. Zhang was so exhausted that she fell on the floor and broke her teeth; she was bleeding all over. More viciously, because she refused to accept the brainwashing, they force-fed her with alcohol and forced her to step on a photo of Teacher Li.

An overpass on Highway 102 is a prominent place to hang banners - all traffic heading south into central China must pass by. Thousands of cars pass by everyday. Banners such as "Falun Dafa Is Good" and "Falun Dafa Is A Righteous Cultivation Practice" can fly on the overpass for a whole day before someone removes them.

During our chats, no matter how he treated me, I always kept a compassionate heart and shared with him many details of my life. One time, we chatted about Falun Dafa until dawn (previously he was not willing to discuss the subject).

The "Nancy Chen Kidnap Case in Sichuan," which lasted 10 days, finally had a successful result on the Chinese New Year's eve...this kidnapping case drew the attention of the Australian government and media.

On January 30, 2003, Falun Gong practitioners in the San Francisco Bay Area held a press conference in front of the Chinese Consulate to rescue American citizen and Falun Gong practitioner Charles Li.