Shen Yun Performing Arts will perform in the Swedish Capital Stockholm and Linkoping between March 24th and 27th. When the news was released, the Chinese Embassy in Sweden called to threaten relevant cultural department last Friday, trying to stop the performances. All major Swedish media exposed this attempt. DN.se News Daily, Swedish TV station SVT, Radio station SR, Expressen, Corren Daily and other media reported the incident on Saturday.

On January 4th, 2008, Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Huang Shuyun and Ms. Zhou Yuying went to Dashu Village in Shuiquliu Town to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. They were reported and then arrested by local police officers. They were detained in Nanshan Detention Centre and are both in critical condition due to being brutally treated. Ms. Huang appeared to have seizures and was frothing at the mouth. Ms. Zhou passed out due to heart problems. They were both rushed to the Shulan City Hospital on January 24th, for emergency treatment, and then taken back to Nanshan Detention Centre the same day. On January 25th, Ms. Zhou passed out again, and they could not find her pulse or measure her blood pressure. She is still being treated in the Shulan City Hospital.

Mr. Shen Hailong, a practitioner from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, was sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment because he participated in broadcasting messages exposing the persecution of Falun Gong via satellite. In prison, he has been brutally tortured. When Mr. Shen Hailong was arrested, his child was just two years old. His wife was in poor health and had to rely on his parents to subsist. His child would often cry in front of his picture.

In the latter half of 2007, under direct orders from the Huaihua City 610 Office authorities held another brainwashing session to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The following are some of the persecution methods used against practitioners in attempts to force them to renounce Falun Gong: forcing practitioners to watch videotapes and cartoons slandering Falun Gong, holding meetings attacking Falun Gong, and holding classes to spread lies to slander Falun Gong. They also used threats to force Falun Gong practitioners to write the "three statements" to give up their practice. They beat, handcuffed, hung up and verbally abused practitioners who remained steadfast in their belief.

Former Tongliao Elementary School teacher Ms. Wang Ying, Ms. Wan Xiuying's daughter, was tortured by being hung up by the handcuffs, beaten with clubs, shocked with two high-voltage electric batons, and beaten by multiple people simultaneously. She was eventually crippled by the abuse she suffered. A CT scan indicated that she had contracted myocarditis, and the torture she suffered also resulted in her loss of hearing. She was released only when she was on the verge of death, even though she had been crippled for a long period of time.

Some Chinese people expressed that the high quality of the show exceeded their imagination. No matter what the scenery or performing techniques were, they all were world-class. As Chinese people, they feel very proud, and they denounced the CCP's action as shameful.

The "Water Sleeves" dance in the Chinese New Year Splendor impressed He Tiankai, a retired Chinese engineer. He said, "The 'Water Sleeves' dance made it seem as if the performers were dancing in real water. The idea of this dance is very new and smart."