The Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality announced the official arrest of famous Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia for the crime of “inciting subversion of state power”. Hu's relatives received notice of his official arrest on January 30th, 2008. The headquarters of Reporters without Borders made a strong protest against the arrest.

On February 2nd, 2008, an International Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance Art Exhibition opened in an exhibition hall of a private gallery in КРАСНОRРСК City in СHENРB Region, Siberia. Before that, the exhibition was held at the national Cultural Historical Museum for two weeks and attracted a lot of attention from local media and the general public.

Ms. Li Xiumin, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province was arrested and has been detained by the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities for eight months. She is now suffering from a tumour in her uterus. Li Xiumin was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by judge Ding Hong from Xinhua District Court, with the 610 Office controlling the court behind the scenes. Li Xiumin appealed to the Shijiazhuang Intermediate Court. The judge of the No.2 Criminal Court, Wang Yingchen, has been refusing the request for Li Xiumin to obtain a guarantor, forcing her to await trial while in custody, despite the fact that her life is in danger with each passing day.

On the evening of March 4th, 2005, practitioner Ms. Ning Yan in her 50s, was arrested in NanLagu, Hailin City, by local police. Because Ms. Ning refused to give her name and address, the Hainan police chief beat her without restraint and handcuffed her to an iron chair for a whole night [Note: Because of the Chinese Communist Party's system of implicating and harassing Dafa practitioners' family members, friends and work associates, practitioners often refuse to give their name and address when they are arrested]. The next day, a police officer came to work and beat her again. Seeing that Ms. Ning was determined and would not yield, he used a glass bottle to pound Ms. Ning's head until only the neck of the bottle was left in the police officer's hand.

On December 19th, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Gai Xiulong saw local officials defacing a Falun Gong poster exposing the persecution in front of her house. Ms. Gai went over to persuade them not to do it. They then called the police and six or seven officers took Ms. Gai into custody. Police chief Cui Jianming used an electric baton to shock Ms. Gai in the face, legs, neck and other sensitive areas for nearly ten minutes. During that time, police officer Sun Libin punched Ms. Gai in the head four times. Ms. Gai was handcuffed for more than five hours before the police took them off.

On January 15th, 2008, the chief of police and head of the 610 Office in Baishan City, Jilin Province, instructed eight policemen to drive two police vehicles to Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lin Daihong's home, and break into her home to arrest her for the second time. Ms. Lin had previously already been tortured to the point of critical condition in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp and had not yet recovered. She was taken directly to the labour camp again.

The Minghui Club in Hualian, Taiwan conducts evaluations and students write reports at the end of each semester. There were only a few new students this year and they were able to catch up very quickly. All of the students made steady progress throughout the semester.

On New Year's Day, the Divine Performing Arts New York Company Director Ms. Zhang Tiejun and several performers represented the entire Divine Performing Arts Company in sending New Years greetings to all Chinese both in mainland China and overseas. They wish all Chinese people a Happy New Year and send wishes that everything goes smoothly!