On the afternoon of the 10th of February 2004, European Falun Dafa practitioners urgently appealed to the European Parliament in Strasbourg regarding the recent unjust detention of Falun Dafa practitioners in France. Practitioners displayed large amounts of materials revealing the truth about the Paris incident.

"If you write a promise letter (to give up Dafa cultivation) and pay 5,000 Yuan, we will send you home instead of the detention centre." I refused. Frustrated, they went to my husband's work place, my child's school and my parents' house to tell lies and threatened them. They told them that I would receive jail sentences. When my sick father heard that, he was so shocked that his physical condition worsened and he became bed ridden. My husband could not bear their constant harassment and paid them 2,000 Yuan, thinking that they would release me. But the police still sent me to a detention centre for 15 days.

Some of the policemen who knew the truth about Falun Dafa brought me some daily necessities, while other policemen smoked in my hospital room. A nurse nicknamed Xiao Xiu asked them not to smoke cigarettes in the hospital ward, but they refused to stop smoking. They replied matter-of-factly, "We are here to watch her, not to provide medical care. It is none of our business if she dies."...Then Wang Zhongren threatened me, trying to make my family pay him 30,000 yuan within three days. He said, "Otherwise, I will put an ad on the newspaper and sell you as a mail-order bride for 30,000 yuan."

In the hospital, two policemen from the detention centre and four criminal prisoners took turns guarding her. They handcuffed both her hands and feet to the bedposts while she was having intravenous injections. On January 27, Luo Huanrong and the other four people came to the hospital to threaten her, saying, "We will beat you if you do not eat; we will keep you here until you die."

There are over a dozen procedures necessary for making one doll, but carrying out many of these steps are countless numbers of people who don't get paid, and when payment does occur, it is only the equivalent of about twenty-five cents. The dolls are exported and sold all over the world. After being handled by over a dozen workers, the dolls are packaged without sterilization. The working conditions are very bad and because of the lack of proper hygiene, the inmates suffer from all kinds of diseases. The Hunan Labour Camp Bureau is using Chishan as a pilot site, and has plans to promote this type of labour activity to every prison in Hunan Province.

Later Ms. Xu Guilan saw news on TV saying that she was "transformed" and had voluntarily turned in her Dafa books. They had created an entirely false scenario. The report only showed Xu Guilan taking the books out of the drawer, without playing any sound. Only the reporter was making a comment. Ms. Xu went to the police station and asked them why they made all this up. None of the police dared to say one word.

I am fifty years old. I truly embarked on the path of cultivation at the end of 1998. At that time, I was so riddled with illnesses that I felt that I would be better off dead than alive. I had many health problems, the most serious being Meniere's Syndrome. My yearly medical expenses were very high, which put me in great financial difficulty. After studying the Fa for three months, all my illnesses disappeared. Every day I was full of vitality and my face was glowing with health. I looked like a different person and I had truly experienced the miracle of Falun Dafa.

Recently news came from China that many Falun Gong practitioners were tortured to death and more were arrested and tortured. Upon hearing this, practitioners held a press conference in front of the Chinese Embassy strongly calling the Chinese government to bring Jiang Zemin and his associates to justice.