Many Swedish Falun Gong practitioners learned about Falun Gong by participating in a Falun Gong class, which is different from other countries. On April 6th 1995, Mr. Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong came to Sweden. He held five public lectures. From 14th and 20th of April, Mr. Li held the second Falun Gong class overseas in Nordgarden, Gothenburg

At the end of August 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms.Jia Minying went to Huideying Village and distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested after being reported. She was imprisoned in the Dingzhou City Detention Centre where she was cruelly mistreated. Policemen took turns violently beating her, trying to force her to reveal where she got her leaflets from. They said while beating her, "Ok, refuse to tell? Nobody would know if we peeled off your skin and took out your tendons!" The police beat her for one hour. Jia Minying often felt sharp pains in her head, and she also had pain all over her body and could not take in any food afterward. Later she was beaten to the brink of death. the police released Jia Minying after extorting over ten thousand yuan from her family.

Mr. Li Ming, 35, graduated from the Department of Economics at Sichuan University in 1995. After graduating he taught at Chengdu Senior Business College until June 1999. He was once honoured as an excellent and dedicated teacher, and his students loved him. Due to his strong belief in Falun Dafa, and consistently speaking out for justice about the persecution to people, he was twice sent to a forced labour camp and brutally tortured. In Xinhua Forced Labour Camp he was forced to labour for more than ten hours per day in a brick factory. He realised that he should not passively submit to the persecution. He and other fellow practitioners held a strike together in the brick factory and they began to do Falun Gong exercises. The guards beat the practitioners with electric batons.

Wang Qinghai, male, is commander of the Domestic Security Division of Manzhouli City Police Department. He practised Falun Gong prior to July 20th, 1999, when the persecution started, and he knows deeply how much benefit Falun Dafa brings to one's health. He said to a Dafa practitioner, "I feel like a young man." However, after July 20th, he did all he could to persecute Dafa practitioners. He organised and took part in sentencing 18 practitioners to forced labour and was involved in over 50 arrests of Falun Dafa practitioners. He was also responsible for the deaths of two female Dafa practitioners, Meng Guiying and Wang Shuying. He caused one practitioner to becoming mentally disturbed and four practitioners to becoming disabled to varying degrees.

Ms. Gong Hongyan, 47, was an elementary school teacher. On April 12th, 2004, the secretary of the school ordered Gong Hongyan to mop the floors. Her textbooks and lesson plans were forcibly taken away. In the afternoon, 610 Office agent Li Jinzhou, and education director Zeng Xiaoguang went to the primary school to notify her that she was being transfered to logistical work. This transfer was done without any paperwork or proper procedures. Without any documentation, they revoked her teaching certification. They also took away her employee benefits as a teacher, such as summer and winter holidays.

Rosemary Heborn, a retired teacher, highly praised the show which she went to see on January 14th. She said her friends told her that the Chinese embassy had tried to interfere with the show and she realised the reason after seeing it--the Chinese Communist Party persecutes its own people and the show exposes that persecution. She said that in Canada, the Chinese government has no right to interfere with people's freedom.

The people are being controlled and turned into degenerate spiritual slaves. The attitude that those growing up in China towards the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square Massacre and the persecution of Falun Gong are the result of the Party's successful use of mass brainwashing methods.

The Divine Performing Arts touring company began a short run of performances of the Chinese New Year Spectacular at the Nokia Theatre LA Live in Los Angeles on January 18th, 2008. They came to Los Angeles after a stop in San Diego, and will continue their tour next week in Las Vegas and San Francisco.

"Governing a country with virtue and appointing officials based on sagacity" builds a foundation to govern a country well and bring peace to the world. This saying comes from China's age-old and profound culture, which is said to have been imparted by the gods. It is a virtue that should forever be remembered and passed on.