In comparison with the civil lawsuit against Zhao filed in the U.S., which was filed as a civil case, the lawsuit in Germany was filed pursuant to criminal code. It means that if the German Court decides that the defendant is guilty of the accused charges, he may be sentenced to life imprisonment. The court will issue an arrest warrant. If the defendant is apprehended, he may have to spend the rest of his life in German prison.

New Year Greetings to our most revered Master.

No words can possibly express our reverence and gratitude towards our Great Teacher.

In the winter when auspicious snow is flying, and plum blossoms are bursting forth; While the long night is about to end and first light of morning is about to shine; on the occasion when the old year is about to pass and the new year is coming, all Dafa practitioners from Dehui City extend our most sincere and lofty wishes to benevolent and great Master: Master, Happy New Year!

Xuchang City in Henan Province is a major production centre for wig products in China. When the Henan Province No. 3 Forced Labour Camp was on the verge of bankruptcy, the labour camp abducted many Falun Gong practitioners and forced them to do slave labour making wig products for export. The labour camp survived and prospered this way.

The "Tiger Bench" torture uses a modified steel chair. The chair seat is a thick steel plate. The original chair armrests are modified with a rounded metal barrier. Both feet are tightly clamped into foot shackles under each front chair leg; a nylon rope is used to tightly tie up the person; the upper arms are tied tightly behind the back, both lower arms are forced to the front to reach armrests on both sides, then two hand straps are used to bind the lower arms to the armrests. The person is tied like this for long time, while tortured and brutally beaten.

Qu Yanlai, a Falun Gong practitioner who is currently illegally detained in Tilanqiao prison in Shanghai, has been on a hunger strike for over 400 days to protest the unjust persecution of Falun Dafa. The violent and frequent force-feeding administered by the prison guards has caused bleeding in Mr. Qu's stomach, and because of the violent nature of the force-feeding he is being temporarily detained in the Tilanqiao Prison Hospital.

The next day, these Dafa practitioners were forced to balance bottle caps on their heads. If the bottle caps fell off at any point, the police would beat the practitioners and slam their heads against the walls. Wang Kaiying suffered injuries to her head and a fist-size bruise. In the afternoon, these practitioners' had their hands cuffed and they were hung up by handcuffs to an iron rail. Their feet, far from the ground, were lightly touching a barely reachable wooden stool, which could be easily kicked aside. In this way, these Dafa practitioners were hung up for several hours

My husband, who does not practise cultivation, got through Customs first and kept looking at me nervously. When I smoothly passed through Customs, we held each other’s hands. I found that his palm was covered with cold sweat. I personally felt the terrible atmosphere caused by China’s persecution on Falun Gong. At all times, one has to face being locked up, sent to prison, cruel torture, spiritual persecution or even death merely because of practising Falun Gong.

Practitioners strongly called for holding the murderers responsible and punishing head criminal Jiang Zemin. Liu Chengjun was one of the practitioners responsible for tapping into cable TV networks in Changchun City to broadcast the truth about the persecution of Falun Dafa in March 2002, having no other avenues to let the public know the facts.

Many tourists from Mainland China visit Kending, Taiwan, and every day they see the practitioners display posters about the popularity of Falun Dafa and read about the international efforts to bring Jiang to justice for his crimes of genocide against Falun Dafa.

On the evening of December 26 and 29, 2003, Dafa practitioners from Auckland and Wellington respectively, held a memorial and candle light vigil to bid farewell to courageous Liu Chengjun who died as a result of the torture he received while in detention.