November 17th, 2007 was Czech National Day. As Czechs celebrated the ending of the communist party’s atrocious rule on this day eighteen years ago, the Falun Gong Devine Land Marching Band composed of nearly one hundred Falun Gong practitioners, was invited to participate in the celebration marking the National Day this year.

Mr. Wu Jinkui, 57, was arrested and detained several times for practising Falun Gong. Mr. Wu was held in a forced labour camp from March 2001, to February 2002. As a result he lost sight in both eyes, his legs were deformed and he became unable to walk. In May 2004, Mr. Wu Jinkui was arrested once again and detained for two months. He was beaten until he was severely injured and paralysed. An x-ray taken in 2007 in a hospital in Changsha City showed that his entire spine was deformed due to the injuries. He died on May 16th, 2007.

My name is Wang Xiuqing. I live in the Chaoyang District of Beijing. Because I practise Falun Gong, I have been persecuted for eight years and have become disabled. The persecution of Falun Gong by the the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its former secretary Jiang Zemin has not only disrupted my normal life but also brought tremendous pressure and harm to my family. The 610 Office agents have continually harassed my family and me. We have lived under constant fear, which has traumatised us physically and psychologically. During these eight years, I have been detained three times and held in a forced labour camp for a year and a half.

Ms. Chen Liping, a Falun Gong practitioner, suffered persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after it launched the brutal persecution of the spiritual practice on July 20th, 1999. The persecution of Ms. Chen included having her behaviour monitored by co-workers, detention, home searches, sentencing to forced labour, torture, and financial punishment. In the forced labour camp, she was brainwashed by being made to watch defamatory videos and read slanderous materials about Falun Gong 17 hours per day, and put under 24-hour surveillance. Afterwards, she was forced to perform hard labour, sometimes having to work all night.

On September 15th, 2007, eleven Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested when they were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and exposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong. The practitioners were all held in the Huitong County Detention Centre. Three older practitioners, 82-year-old Nie Yuanxin, 70-year-old Zuo Shuying, and 60-year-old Nie Guixiang, returned home after they had five to ten thousand yuan extorted from them. The other eight practitioners were sentenced to between three and seven years in prison by Huitong County Court.

Because the material the road was made of was not hard enough, vehicles using the road had created deep ditches along the sides. It was even difficult to walk down the road on sunny days. If it was raining, the muddy water in the deep ditches was knee-deep. After she saw this, she started to repair the road along with a neighbor who is also a practitioner. Not long after, a smooth and even road took shape before the villagers' eyes.

Twenty-one days later, the old man had another check-up. The doctor pointed at the new x-ray and pondered: "Why is it so hard to tell which leg is now broken!" The family member went to consult with several other doctors and received the same answer. The doctor also commented: "How come an old man like him recovered that fast? Even a young man will not recover so quickly!" The old man's son replied excitedly: "It was because I asked my father to recite 'Falun Dafa is good.' That is the reason."

On January 6th, 2008, the Service Center for Quitting the Party in Malaysia held a parade and rally at Merdeka Square in Kuala Lumpur to support 30 million Chinese withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Mr. Ma is a computer engineer from Atlanta. He and his wife attended the NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular last year, and enjoyed it so much, that they returned to see the show again this year. They both highly praised it.