On the 9th February, 2004, several representatives began the action of visiting high level French government officials. Smartly dressed, wearing yellow scarves, with a calm composure and upright thoughts, they came to the doors of the French Ministry of Domestic Affairs. At first the policemen said there was no time to meet them, then they began to make phone calls asking for instructions. After a while, a more senior official came to meet them. The practitioners expressed their views calmly but firmly. The atmosphere became more relaxed. Finally a high level official agreed to meet with the representatives from the European Falun Dafa Association.

On the 1st of February, 2001, a press release was distributed to major media organisations in Germany by the German Falun Gong Information Centre. It stated that about fifty people wearing yellow clothing had been arrested in the Sino-French New Year celebration activities in Paris. Last week and this week, German Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested in Paris went to the French Embassy in Berlin and consulates in Munich, Frankfurt, Saarbruecken, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Hannover and Leipzig one after another to present appeal letters to the French officials and ask them to forward the letters to the French Government.

Australian practitioner and artist Zhang Cuiying travelled to Finland to help call on the Finnish people to pay attention to the basic human rights of persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in China. She was imprisoned and tortured by Jiang Zemin’s regime; she used her personal testimony to raise awareness.

Thousands of Chinese people arrived in France to join the parade held in the Champs-Elysées area during the Chinese New Year. People who joined the parade were from different cities, provinces, and areas, including workmen, farmers, women, and children. Most of them were coming to France for the first time. It was a good opportunity to explain the facts of the persecution and the true nature of Falun Gong to these precious Chinese people who have been shackled by the lies of the Jiang regime.

In mid-November 2002, policewomen Kou Na and Gao Huachao led drug addicts to beat her savagely on many occasions. They stripped her off her clothes at night and threw her into a pig pen...They later pushed her to the front of the dog cage, threatening to jail her together with a dog. All these humiliations and tortures brought tremendous damage to her both mentally and physically.

Officer Chen took the mobile phone that You's son had just purchased as well as 100 yuan. You's family worried about her health in the detention centre, so they sent gifts to their relations to get her out. They spent over a thousand yuan just to treat Zhang Yinchao and his family to dinner. (Zhang is the one in Xingtai Police Department in charge of the Falun Gong issue.) Zhang also took from them two or three thousand yuan in cash. When You was released, she was again fined 3,000 yuan. Altogether, You and her family were extorted over 10,000 yuan. [The average monthly income of an urban worker is 500 yuan.]

A policeman said ferociously, "If you continue to practise, we will send both of you to jail." Then they left. However, they returned just several minutes later and forcibly took the couple away. They jailed them in the Longxi County Detention Centre and delivered a notice to the couple's family stating the couple was detained on criminal charges....On April 22, a release notice was issued for Zhang. However, Song Jianhua said, "The higher authorities did not instruct us to release Falun Gong practitioners and we can't release him according to the release notice." They also said that they would keep the Falun Gong practitioners in jail until they died.

On April 29, 2002, police from the Heping Police Station ransacked my home and demanded to know if I was still practising Dafa. I said, "Yes, I do. How could I not take part in such a wonderful practice?" As a result, the police took my daughter and me to the Heping Police Station where the police told me I would be released if I said I would relinquish the Falun Dafa practice. I answered, "I'll definitely continue to practise Dafa! No one can stop me!"

This sixty five year old man, who had become fit and healthy through his practice of Falun Dafa was arrested for no good reason other than he risked his life to tell people the truth about the brutal persecution. He then had to suffer unimaginable pain and torture, which destroyed his body and mind and lead to his sad death.

Under such psychological torture, Ms. Yang began to get thinner and thinner, her face became jaundiced yellow and her abdomen swelled to distention. She had difficulty breathing and was sick in bed. The doctor's examination found that all of her vital signs were normal. No one could diagnose the illness that she was suffering....On November 6, 2002, Ms. Yang Jingyun quietly passed away. She had been so helpless and persecuted so severely. Her family was so sad!

At noon of February 10, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference in front of the Chinese Consulate General in Houston to strongly request the Chinese Government to stop persecuting Falun Gong and bring Jiang Zemin and other murderers to justice.

During the press conference in front of Chinese Consulate in Houston, Texas, the practitioners announced that Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued the verdict on February 3, 2004 and found Pan Xinchun, Deputy Chinese Consul General in Toronto, guilty of libel.

On February 5, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from the cities of Tucson and Phoenix in the state of Arizona, took the opportunity of David Bowie's concert tour date in Phoenix to tell people about the persecution of Falun Gong in China by Jiang's regime.

Many of her friends and relatives worried about her but could do nothing to help. The prison doctors and other people all said to each other, "They committed no crimes, and they just believe in the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. How can it be possible to change a person's personal beliefs through arrest, torture and coercion? She should have been released a long time ago under such circumstances."