Zhao Liping is a doctor of Chinese medicine and a Falun Gong practitioner. Because the clinic she is working at is under pressure from the Chinese Consulate in Edinburgh, she was forced to resign on October the 4th 2003. Miss Zhao concluded, “It is shameless for the Chinese consulate to extend the Jiang regime’s persecution of Falun Gong overseas.” She hopes that more people around the world understand the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong, stand up to support the victims and call for an end to the persecution.

Among the audience, the most noticeable were tourists and employees from participating companies from China. When they saw “Zhuan Falun” published with different colours in various languages, they all stared at the books with open eyes. Practitioners went to talk to them.

The law requires the federal prosecutor to make a decision regarding four set stipulations. He did not mention that China violates international human rights conventions, nor did he mention that China does not sentence criminals fairly. Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have pointed out that these illegal acts exist in China.

Once the corrupt police received a fine of 5,000 Yuan from a Falun Gong practitioner surnamed Chen of Chengguan Town and others, they straight away split up the money in the Political and Security Section office. After they split up the money, one of the police argued, just like a common thief,:"How come you have so much money, but only give me so little?" One of the leaders replied:"You only have that much! How many days have been here! If you want it, just take it, otherwise you have nothing. Don't you know the Party has no say in this matter..." They nearly started a brawl over an uneven share of the illicit money. This is what Falun Gong practitioners witnessed.

The Wafangdian City Prison in Liaoning Province recently established a brigade especially designed to control and persecute all Falun Gong practitioners detained there. Guards from this unit gathered about thirty practitioners together and designated eighteen special guards to monitor them. The first thing these special prison guards did was to shave practitioners' heads bald to try and dehumanise them.

This is how Jiang Zemin's Regime came up with many of these "Repentance Statements" and "Fingerprints." They forced practitioners to sign their names on those "Repentance Statements" against their will. Most of those statements are fabricated by the police to meet quotas set by the Jiang Regime and avoid being implicated themselves..

On April 3, 2003, Group One of the Baoding Labour Camp organized a group reading of a newspaper article called "People's Dignity." Practitioner Li Jianguo then said, "Where is there dignity for Falun Dafa practitioners?" When inmate Cao Xiaoping heard this he reported him to the police, and practitioner Li Jianguo was hung by his wrists for eight days.

The children were asked to name all the things they can think of when they hear the words “Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance”. It was very touching to see how the children were thinking about these simple, pure truths, about which, due to the unfavorable circumstances, they had very few opportunities to think about. They surprised us with their deep understanding, and even taught us some things.

My current understanding in proceeding with the lawsuit is to clarify the truth to as many people as we possibly can in a controlled way. I mean we can use one aspect of the persecution to clarify the truth to one person and another part to clarify the truth to another person, but every practitioner should be using this lawsuit to clarify the truth to as many people as possible each day

Petals of Peace highlights the plight of the thousands of children in China who, like Fadu, have lost parents to the persecution, or whose parents are incarcerated and are unable to see or take care of their children, as well as the millions of children who are forced to write statements against Falun Gong in their schools.

It was a pleasure to notice that many Asian students, especially those from China, signed to support the rescue of Charles Li. An American student said after signing, "I believe it is wrong to detain Charles Li. Everyone should have his basic rights. But he is deprived."