On December 28th, 2008, the annual Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference was held in Germany’s southern city Karlsruhe, where Germany’s federal Supreme Court and Constitution Court reside. Falun Gong practitioners from Germany, Austria and Switzerland attended the conference. Many new and veteran Falun Gong practitioners shared their cultivation experiences.

On November 25th, when Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yujie, almost 60 years old, was talking with an acquaintance in front of the No. 2 High School, three police arrested her. They took her to the domestic security unit and then to a detention centre. Then they ransacked her home. Ms. Zhang's family is not wealthy, but to gain her release and stop the police from taking her to a forced labour camp, they handed over 6,000 yuan. The domestic security unit head, Zhang Deqing, pocketed 5,000 yuan.

After Ms. Xu Lindi retired, both she and her husband suffered from many illnesses. When they started to practise Falun Gong, both of them recovered from their poor health. However, after the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, they were severely persecuted. Their home was searched five times and their property was confiscated. Ms. Xu's husband was arrested and detained five times, for 34 days the fifth time. The Jiangbei District Police Department forced Ms. Xu to pay 15,000 yuan for her husband's release. In the brainwashing centre, Ms. Xu was interrogated, threatened and deprived of sleep. She was hurt both physically and mentally. She passed away on July 21st, 2004.

Retired Ms. Wang Guifeng is a Falun Gong practitioner living in Weihai City. On December 9th, 2008, Ms. Wang was arrested as she went out to pay her electricity bill. Since then, she has been detained at the Weihai Detention Centre. Previously in March 2005, Ms. Wang was arrested again by Lpolice while she was walking and was sent to a labour camp for three years. During that period of time, she was severely tortured.

On June 30th, police arrested Ms. Wu Fenghua and took her to a brainwashing class. Fu Yanchun threatened: "If you do not write the 'three statements,' I will torture you to death and then throw you into a river. This is a desolate place away from the town and nobody knows it! I will inject you with drugs which will make you become muddleheaded and tell me everything! I can make the school expel your daughter! I can demand one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand yuan from your family!" After that, he beat her up, put a pen into Ms. Wu's hand and tried to force her to write the three statements. After this failed, he forced Ms. Wu to sit on an iron chair, handcuffed her hands to the chair and forced her to squat down. He tortured her this way for the whole night.

This employee came to work early and stayed late and never cared about self-interest. The boss was very satisfied with her and told the person in charge of hiring at the factory, "Please keep an eye out for me. I want to hire whoever practices Falun Gong, and that person won't be underpaid."

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started its persecution of Falun Dafa. That night, someone from the local police station took away Teacher's photo and Zhuan Falun from my home. I was very sad, since Falun Dafa is the most precious thing in my life. I deeply regretted that I was not able to protect Teacher's photo and Zhuan Falun. I did the fifth exercise with tears in my eyes.

Since Eutelsat stopped NTDTV broadcasts to China, politicians around the world have paid more and more attention to the situation. In the latest co-signed letter, ten members of HK's Legislative Council signed a letter to show their support, calling upon Eutelsat to resume NTDTV's broadcast signal to China.

Divine Performing Arts (DPA) International Company performed its fourth of eight shows at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles on the evening of January 2nd, 2009.