Recently the Divine Performing Arts (DPA)’s scheduled performances at Det Kongelige Theatre in Copenhagen were abruptly cancelled. In its place, a mysterious concert sponsored by the Chinese Embassy and attended by invitation only will be staged at the same theatre. Xie Hangsheng, the Chinese Ambassador to Denmark, personally invited the Danish officials to attend the Chinese New Year Concert.

In July 1999, my mother couldn't stand Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime's slander of Falun Gong and we decided to go to Beijing to appeal. We arrived in Beijing on July 22nd, 1999, and went to the Appeals Office. The officers didn't allow us to go in. We went to Tiananmen Square on December 16th. My mother sat down and shouted "Falun Dafa is Good!" An officer kicked her fiercely. Her leg was broken and she couldn't stand up. The officers arrested us and sent us back to Jiaozhou City. After they took us back, I was locked in my workplace, my husband was locked up in a nursing home. My son was locked up in a psychiatric hospital, and my two daughters were locked up in the Fu'an Police Station. My mother was left alone at home with a broken leg and no one to take care of her. In 2001 I was arrested again. Traumatised, my mother's mental situation worsened. She cried and cried, wanting me to be released. She died in May 2002.

Prison doctor Gao Rizheng of the Bayuquan District Detention Centre in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province ruthlessly tortures Falun Dafa practitioners with injections of harmful drugs. Gao Rizheng tortured Ms. Li Fengmei from 2003 to 2004. The guards brutally beat her many times, resulting in injuries to her head and left eardrum. She also suffered from internal bleeding and tuberculosis during her detention. The guards also force-fed Ms. Li Fengmei through her nose twice. The second time, they inserted the tube forcefully, resulting in internal injuries. The tube was covered with blood when it was pulled out. Soon after that, she suffered from frequent, acute stomachaches.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liang Hongzhi, around 40 years old, is detained in the Third Division of the labour camp. Instructor Wang Yonghong ordered people to monitor her and torment her by forcing her to stand for long periods of time. She was not allowed to sleep during this time. By January 14th, 2008, Ms. Liang had stood for 20 days. Her legs were so swollen that the skin peeled. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Xiuhua was arrested and sent to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in 2005. During the past two years, Ms. Yu has been severely persecuted. The guards strictly monitored her. She was not allowed to take a shower, change clothes or get enough to eat for long periods of time.

Lu Zhiguo, a Falun Gong practitioner in his 50s, is from Chifeng City. Around July 2006, he was detained on the fourth floor of the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp. In the summer, Lu Zhiguo was forced to wear heavy clothes. The door and windows were tightly closed with the electric heater turned on. The volume of the speakers was set to the maximum. Lu Zhiguo was tortured this way for more than a week. Zhang Ting, is a fifty-five-year old Falun Gong practitioner from Chifeng. He was once cuffed and chained to a bed for nine days. Zhang Ting was released only when his blood pressure became seriously high.

I learned a lot in a few months. The stranger on the Internet didn't lie to me and he had no reason to lie to me. I had no choice but to believe the facts that I had learned. I appreciated and seized the opportunity to talk to the stranger on the Internet. I also obtained the electronic version of Zhuan Falun from him, not that I wanted to learn Falun Gong, but to learn more about what it was, because it is irresponsible to Falun Gong, to oneself, and to society to talk about things one knows nothing about.

On February 3rd, the Divine Performing Arts finished its sixth Chinese New Year Splendor performance in New York City. For the past few days, Radio City Music Hall has been packed with people with many people praising the Divine Performing Arts' performances as "the best," "the most beautiful," and "the purest."

"The show highlighted two values, which are the essence of Chinese culture: truthfulness and compassion. This is why the show was so touching and inspiring."Although the orchestra is not very big, it had both traditional Chinese instruments and Western instruments and combined the Eastern and Western styles."

The artist, Ms. Zhang Cuiying is an internationally acclaimed Chinese artist living in Australia. From an early age, Ms. Zhang was nurtured and taught by well-known Chinese masters, in the respected discipline of traditional Chinese brush painting. Her works have been extensively published throughout China. One of many honours includes the Asia-Pacific Gold Medal for Chinese Calligraphy and Painting.