many of the teachers were teaching the persecution of Falun Gong as part of China studies included in the Modern Studies curriculum at Higher level (equivalent to A level). The teachers were extremely happy that there was information for them to take away with them, and one said,” you’ve saved our lives!"

Xiong Wei is a female Falun Gong practitioner and former student of the Technical University of Berlin. She is currently being held against her will in Xinan women’s labour camp of Daxing on the outskirts of Beijing, China.

They handcuffed both my hands and feet to iron bars in the spread eagle position [hands and feet pulled apart to opposite extremes] and pulled my head backwards by my hair, making my head squeeze into the space between the two iron bars that was narrower than the width of my head. This caused me extreme pain and dizziness. With my face looking upward, he tightly held both my nose and check, and started savagely force-feeding me.

The police threatened, "If you still do not answer my question, I will beat you half to death, then drag you outside, pour gas all over your body and set you on fire. Then we will say you did it to yourself because of practicing Falun Gong."

Zhu Chunrong was put into a solitary confinement cell because she refused to recite the rules; she was hung up by her hands for one to two days and forced to sit in an iron chair; her hands were cuffed behind her back and she was forbidden to sleep; she was electric shocked after she was hung up, and her legs were covered by blisters from the electric shock. Her face was beaten black and blue. While in the iron chair, she was electrically shocked. At times, several electric batons shocked her simultaneously.

A policeman asked her, "What's it like to be together with those Falun Gong people?" She said, "They are truly good people. When I had no clothes, they gave me clothes. When I had no quilt, they gave me a quilt. When I go back, I'm going to practice Falun Gong. I'll get my son to practice too."

Since the middle of October, local practitioners organized small groups to regularly study the Fa [Principles of Falun Gong] and do Fa Zheng Nian...Through this kind of group activity, the practitioners felt rapid improvement...generally speaking, everything has been quite good

China's deputy prime minister, Qian Qichen, fanned the dispute when he said in a recent television interview that opponents of the new rules must have something to hide. The opponents must have "devils in their hearts," he warned...

Before I began to practise Falun Dafa, I suffered from various illnesses and hovered between life and death seven times between the age of 26 and 47. Because of my long time illnesses, the whole family suffered a lot. It was like living in hell and each day felt like a year. I called to heaven and earth, but got no response. Who could help me?