"In an unprecedented decision, a Spanish judge has indicted five high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for their role in crimes of torture and genocide committed against Falun Gong practitioners. Among the defendants is former CCP head Jiang Zemin, widely acknowledged as the chief instigator of the campaign to “eradicate” the spiritual practice."

Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Shao Changhua and Ms. Zhang Guilan were arrested in 2004. They were detained at the Dandong Police Station and Shenyang City Women's Prison in Liaoning Province. They both suffered from brutal persecution, and Ms. Shao Changhua was subjected to sleep deprivation for over 20 days. In December 2005, police locked Shao Changhua into a room on the third floor. Prisoners forcibly took off her clothes, covered up her mouth and started to brutally beat her. She suffered multiple broken ribs as a result of the brutal beating.

Falun Gong practitioner Lin Guizhi has been detained and persecuted at the Shenyang Women's Prison for over 5 years. Her family members went to see her in the prison recently and found that she was very weak. She fainted right in front of them. She suffered from a blood clot in her brain and lost consciousness 6 or 7 times a day. In November 2008, prison officials notified her family that Ms. Lin was in serious condition yet they still refused to release her. Team leader Zhang Lei said, "If she doesn't give up her belief in Falun Gong or write a guarantee statement to give it up, she will not be released on bail for medical treatment even if she dies in prison." Currently the prison is trying to "transform" Ms. Lin with coercion and are refusing to release her.

Since April 20th, 2009, Mr. Yin Xunzhen, 60, has endured all kinds of inhumane torture during his 6-month detention. Mr. Yin's health has deteriorated greatly during his detention. His hair turned grey, and his face became pinched. He shook whenever he moved and his speech became very faint and weak. Mr. Yin became disoriented and also became very thin. His family did not recognise him when they visited him in the detention centre. Mr. Yin is now in grave physical condition and suffering tremendously.

Fifty-four-year-old Ms. Liu Yanqin lives in Fushun City area, Liaoning Province. Because of her firm belief in Falun Gong, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials frequently harassed her. They arrested her and sentenced her to forced labour several times. Ms. Liu Yanqin was brutally tortured while imprisoned. In July 2008, police officers arrested Ms. Liu Yanqin under the pretext of security for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. They tortured her brutally by means of forcing her to sit on a "tiger bench," force-feeding her with wine, inserting lit cigarettes into her nostril, and hanging her up to beat her. After they tortured her for two days and one night, Ms. Liu Yanqin's hands were disabled. She is now detained in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.

We are first of all cultivators in Dafa. Without Fa-study, we are not true cultivators, because without Fa study, we can never make changes at the micro-level. In other words, we are not practicing Dafa if we don't study the Fa.

Only when we are compassionate toward fellow practitioners and use the Fa to rectify ourselves and guide our interactions with fellow practitioners, can we have righteous thoughts. Only in this way can our righteous thoughts be strengthened and become stronger and stronger.

Falun Gong practitioners of western Australia participated in a parade in the city of Frementle on November 15th, 2009.