Danish practitioners who did not go to the US or Brussels, have in this special period gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy for four days to peacefully appeal and do Fa Zheng Nian [rough translation - send forth righteous thoughts. This can be understood as a type of meditation.].

Every night from October 22 to 27, Austrian practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Vienna to peacefully appeal and to Fa Zheng Nian [rough translation - send forth righteous thoughts. This can be understood as a type of meditation.].

I was forced to stand still in the cell for over 20 consecutive days. Since I was not allowed to sleep, I felt so tired physically and mentally. My legs and feet were swollen and I was not able to put on my shoes or walk. The pain was like being cut by knives. During that period, the police also beat me with electric batons twice to try to force me to write those pledges to denounce Falun Gong. I refused and they just kept torturing me.

One lady who passed by said "What's wrong with practicing (Falun Gong)? I know many people with master's and doctorate's degrees practice these exercises, so it must be something beneficial. Otherwise so many people would not continue practicing it under such persecution."

On the morning of October 25th, Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference at the Old Amstler building in Crawford, Texas. The press conference exposed Jiang Zemin's evil persecution of Falun Gong.

Falun Dafa practitioners from Hong Kong and Macao gathered in Standard Garden to appeal. They called on all just people of the world to work together to end Jiang's persecution against Falun Gong.

According to Wang Hongtian's brother, the labour camp informed Wang's family to pick him up on September 19, the day before Wang's death. When they saw Wang, he was emaciated and near death. It was clear that the labour camp did not want to take responsibility for their actions, so they asked Wang's family members to take him home.

Dafa practitioners here must work over 12 hours a day and are allowed only five minutes for lunch; otherwise, the drug-addict criminals will drag them out. Most practitioners have no choice but to perform their bodily functions into their clothing. Dafa practitioners also suffer physical torture. They are forced to squat more than four hours, or even up to six hours. Some practitioners were tortured to death or to the point of becoming disabled.

Dafa practitioner Zhang Xiufen and Wang Yuying were employees of a local company. On September 26, police officers kidnapped them at work and sent them to a brainwashing class. They refused to co-operate with the police in the brainwashing class and went on a hunger strike to protest the their crimes. Nevertheless, the police kept torturing and abusing them. Currently, they are extremely weak and their lives are in grave danger.

When she saw that I did not respond, she started to pinch and grab at my ears, eyes, nose and shoulders. The collaborators spat on my face and into my mouth. When I spat it out, five of them immediately spat on my face, head and mouth while yelling at me. They began hitting me, knocking me to the ground. Although I had collapsed, they picked me up again, just to beat me some more.

[The Chinese Embassy] pressured the hotels nearby to cancel all the bookings by Chinese people, and they also asked the sponsors to send emails to the participants of the "welcoming group," requesting them to sign an agreement: "...I also agree if any disturbances are caused by me (e.g. protest against the United States and/or President of China) to pay $5,000 as minimal damages for any harm that may result from such disturbances to the group's reputation."

They made clear that they do not support violent demonstrations, do not participate in actions against globalisation, do not favour any party, they only pursue the free practice of Falun Gong, especially in China, where the prohibition continues and where hundreds of [thousands of] practitioners are imprisoned or concentrated in isolated zones for forced labour.

"I have travelled thousands of miles from Japan to be here," said Atsushi Kaneko. "The reason for my coming here is to ask more people to help rescue my wife from torture in a labour camp in China."

If I lived in China, the chances are overwhelming that I would have been tortured, imprisoned, or executed by now, for one reason only: I practice Falun Gong. I am neither a fanatic nor a political activist, I practice law, but Jiang Zemin would want me dead nonetheless...

She was arrested in March 2000 when police found two Falun Gong books in a drawer behind the counter of her father's bookstore, where she was working. She was released 10 days later after paying a fine, but reportedly learned from a police source that she was on a list of Falun Gong practitioners.

Teacher Li's words suddenly came into my mind; We should consider others more under all circumstances. As overseas Chinese, we should respect the habits of westerners and the way they like to deal with things. For example, the Chinese would think it is not a big deal whether or not we hold the door for others; everyone should open their own door when they need to. Yet westerners take this as a sign of good manners and respect for others.