The Dutch Foreign Minister said China’s human rights records are worsening in the run-up to the Olympics. According to Reuters, on the 18th of January, 2008, a discussion on China’s human rights record and the Olympics Games was held in The Hague, Holland. At the meeting, the Dutch Foreign Minister said that in the run-up to the Olympics, China’s human rights records was worsening, the issue of human rights should be addressed to Beijing.

Ms. Li Wenxia, 47, did the Falun Gong exercises with fellow practitioners at home, but they were arrested and detained in Tanggu District Detention Centre for nine months. During this nine months of detention, Ms. Li was subjected to numerous tortures. She was forced into slave labour every day, and made to eat very dirty non-nutritious food that caused many of the inmates to have diarrhoea. Because she was a Falun Dafa practitioner, she was not allowed to sleep on a bed, but instead made to sleep on the wet cement floor. Cold water was constantly poured on her, and she slept in about an inch of water. She was also constantly cursed and beaten for not renouncing Falun Dafa. Ms. Li became severely injured mentally, and physically weak, unable to take care of herself. She died in December 2006.

Countless practitioners have been expelled from schools, dismissed from their jobs, and sentenced to forced labour or imprisonment. They have been subjected to numerous tortures including being shocked with high-voltage electric batons, tied to the death bed, handcuffed behind their backs, hung up in the air, stabbed with bamboo sticks, fed poisons and unknown drugs, savagely force-fed, fed with urine, faeces, and highly concentrated salt solutions, and sexually abused. They have had money extorted from them and have even had their organs harvested while they were still alive. The list goes on and on.

On July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started its unrestrained persecution of Falun Gong. Over the past eight years, I have been arrested and detained six times for my belief. I was sent to the forced labour camp and had 7350 yuan extorted from me. I was traumatised. My family members, relatives, and friends were also subjected to huge psychological pressures and suffered economic losses.

Mr. Jiang Yunzhou took care of the sick inmates at the prison hospital. On October 15th, 2007 he was pummelled and kicked in the head and face by Wu Qiang, who was the hospital staff member in charge. Bones in Mr. Jiang Yunzhou's nose were fractured, his right eye became swollen and purple, and he passed out on the scene. Even now Mr. Jiang Yunzhou still feels pain in his nose and he frequently becomes dizzy.

Mr. Tran said, "I especially liked 'The Power of Awareness', which helped me to know more about Falun Gong. We know that evil can never defeat good. There is a similar thing occurring in Vietnam, with the Communist party always trying to control people's thinking and their freedom of expression. From my past experiences, I understood the dance well, which was a presentation of people's awareness and righteous choices."

People around me all ask, "How come you recovered from your illness so soon? What supernormal medication did you take?" I tell them that it was Falun Gong that saved me, and I got better by practising Falun Gong. Having witnessed my miraculous recovery several of my neighbours also began to learn Falun Gong.

Ms. Huang from Hong Kong said she had never seen such a magnificent show. "Everyone around me was praising the show... I liked every piece, they are so vivid and real. And the dancers seem to so easily perform difficult moves. It is really amazing."

"I think it's a great show," she said about the Spectacular. "It's very educational, and I think that it's important for it to come to Vegas, because we don't have a lot of educational, cultural shows here."

Di Renjie said: "The old monk told me that from my looks I would be a highly placed eminent official and would become well known in the future. But I must always remember to forbid myself lust! Since the old monk pointed it out to me, how could I trade my future for a moment of desire?"