The Office of Chris Patten, the EU Commissioner for External Affairs, wrote to a Falun Gong practitioner in September. The letter stated: "Concerning the development in Hong Kong, our delegation is monitoring them closely".

France and her European partners have been attentively following [details of the persecution of Falun Gong] since 1999..France seizes each high-level bilateral meeting to address the issue of human rights, as during the recent visit to France by the Chinese Prime Minister, Mr. Zhu Rongji

A 73 year old practitioner was brutally beaten for over a dozen times. He was beaten to the point that his entire body was swollen. One vicious policeman made the following public threat: "We need to carry out the policy and we need to kill 300 more. We will kill one after another. No one will be able to survive."

"I will beat you for the sake of Beijing people," one officer said. He beat me on the face using his hand and then using a police baton. Later I was detained in another cell. The criminals there brutally beat me. I shouted out "Falun Dafa is good." When the police heard this, they came over and beat me with an electrical baton.

Seeing that the practitioner did not succumb to their demands, they began using a 6-foot long, 2-inch diameter, wooden baton to beat him. This time, one of the policemen used both of his hands to grab Guo's skin at his chest and pull it upward as hard as he could. In the meantime the other person used his fingers to dig into Guo's skin, pulling it up and twisting it. The pain this caused was indescribable.

I asked the head of my cell why she beat me for no reason. She replied, "The detention centre guards directed us to do it. Each Falun Gong practitioner was to be beaten upon arrival. You are no exception. Jiang gave the order from high above."to step on them. Practitioner Li Zhen's eyes turned black and the entire right side of the face turned dark purple as a result of the beatings.

Some of the practitioners are over eighty years old. In the middle of the night, the police officers on duty use electric batons to shock Falun Gong practitioners. They apply electric shocks to the face, the palms, the backs of the hands, and the bottom of the feet. One evil police captain would kneel on top of a Falun Gong practitioner, pull the practitioner's hair tight, and pry open the month for intubation. Screams filled the cold, dark, and frightening underground chamber every day.

On Monday October 21 2002, Friends of Falun Gong student organization, students, government leaders and the public joined together at the University of Colorado in Denver to express their concern for the terrible human rights violations in China.

At 10:38, Jiang's private plane arrived at the military airstrip of O'Hare Airport in Chicago. At almost exactly the same time, there suddenly appeared in the sky a strange cloud formed in the shape of a ghostly face. Two places in the airport suddenly caught on fire.

"Contrary to the drumbeat sounded in recent years by some advocates of engagement, China's willingness to engage in the world economy has not translated into evolution toward democracy, nor an improvement in religious, human, or worker rights.Indeed, the government of China remains in many respects the enemy of its own people, imprisoning dissidents and clamping down on nearly all forms of free expression."

"The Communist Party has always seen the media's primary role as rallying public support for the party and its policies. So when the Internet came along, it was no surprise that the party wanted to control it, too, even as it recognized the Net's economic and educational benefits. The party's biggest concern is that the Internet could be used by foreign or indigenous organizations, such as the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement."

"It's almost as if officials are deliberately setting out to subvert Hong Kong's international image. Why does the government want to accelerate the process if, as it professes, the proposed new laws will be rarely utilized, and there's no immediate plan to use them? It's almost as if Ip and her crowd are trying to scare investors away from Hong Kong."

"Given that my husband is not a Falungong practitioner, I can imagine no other reason for his arrest except for the purpose to keep him as a hostage to threaten me. I would like to ask: If this is not terrorism, what is?" Zeng said

"Kaneko said he visited his wife, Yoko, in August in a Chinese labour camp where she is serving an 18-month term. "Not only has she lost weight, but I could see she was suffering mentally," he said..."She was slow and quiet, not even able to fix her eyes on me," Kaneko said. "I could not help wondering if she could survive the 18 months' labour camp life and come back to Japan alive.""

Since graduating from my university, I have kept in good contact with my former classmates. I have organized several events for students and alumni. I play a central role in keeping our classmates connected. This role has given me good opportunities to clarify the truth to my former classmates.

All family members of a Falun Dafa practitioner in Weifang City, Shandong Province know that Falun Dafa is good and supported her practice. In the last few years, her family members experienced a few very dangerous situations and walked away unharmed. Their stories became the legend of the neighborhood.