On March 20th, 2008, the first Chinese Spectacular show in Northern Europe was presented by Divine Performing Arts. Applause from the audience was heard from the beginning to the end. Even after the curtain was drawn, the audience continued applauding. The performers came out for several curtain calls, but the audience was still reluctant to leave.

Recently, each work unit in Beijing has been asked to pass down a notice requiring them to search for "key persons" who might be disruptive, in to order to maintain "social stability" leading up to the Olympics. This notice included Falun Gong practitioners--people who follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, along with criminals, terrorists and mental patients. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is attempting to mislead people, preventing them from distinguishing good from bad. The CCP is responsible for inciting hatred toward Falun Gong.

Between Qitaihe City and Baoqing County in Heilongjiang Province, there is a tollbooth, and there are police stationed there. In order to identify practitioners, the policemen laid a person on the ground and covered his face. Then they forced the passengers from the buses to kick the person on the ground and to curse Falun Gong and its founder. If people refused to do so, they would be assumed to be practitioners (as they do not hit or curse people) and would be arrested. Every passenger went through strict inspection, particularly those who covered their face with scarf.

On the afternoon of November 24th, 2007, a student who didn't know the truth about Falun Gong reported three practitioners to the police while they were talking to people on a bus about the persecution. They were arrested and taken to the Wangcheng County Police Department with another practitioner. Here, the four of them were interrogated then detained for one night. The heads and faces of Ms. Zhang Lihui and Ms. Liu Meihsuang were swollen from being beaten during the interrogation. A handful of Ms. Liu Meishuang's hair had been ripped out. Mr. Wu Limin was also badly beaten. The next day, four people were sent to Wangcheng County Detention Centre and then transferred to Xinkanpu Forced Labour Camp.

Mr. Li Shimin, in his 30s, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, Police in Beijing arrested and beat him. At a detention centre a doctor injected him with unknown substances. The local police ransacked his home and arrested his wife, leaving his two young children home alone. Officers extorted 2,300 yuan from his father before releasing his wife. Li Shimin was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour and was taken to the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp where he was brutally tortured. He was locked in solitary confinement, had to endure the Tiger Bench and was subjected torture with electric shock batons, savage beatings, the "Big Hang-up" and sleep deprivation as well as injections with unknown substances. He was released after 16 months of detention but then suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of unspeakable and long-term cruelties.

On March 23rd, the Divine Land Marching Band, consisting of local Falun Gong practitioners, debuted in the Easter Parade in Toronto. More than 80 groups performed in the parade.