(Clearwisdom.net)

1) At the Third Labor Education Center of Xuchang City, Henan Province, Falun Gong practitioners are forced to work 13 to 14 hours a day. Sometimes they need to work to 2 to 4 in the morning to finish the work. Practitioners are forced to attend brainwashing classes. Every day, two to four criminals who are either drug addicts or thieves monitor practitioners on a 24-hour basis.

Practitioners who stick to their belief are inhumanely tortured: they are punched, kicked, hung up by a rope, shocked by electric baton, and beaten by rubber baton. Their terms are illegally extended and they are not allowed to sleep for days on end.

The tortures also include putting practitioners on a hot surface, having them put on "tight clothes, anal brushing with a toothbrush (which causes severe bleeding), poking the penis with a sharp object, rubbing toothbrush handles between the fingers, pounding the finger tips with heavy items, pouring cold water on the head, the so called "surfing" (lifting the body up with the limbs extended and throwing the body onto hard surfaces such as a bench, a steel bed, the floor, etc). To date, at least two practitioners are known to have died from the torture here, and many others have been handicapped physically or psychologically.

2) The Yangyuan Brainwashing Base of the "610 Office" of the Wuhan City Government in Hubei Province has been using brutal torture on Falun Gong practitioners, trying to force them to give up their belief. The crimes committed there include:
1. Body searching, bag searching, and room searching. If articles by Teacher or other Falun Gong materials are found, there will be more brutal persecution.
2. Practitioners are not allowed to recite Teacher's articles, practice the exercises, or promote Falun Gong. They are not even allowed to talk or go outside.
3. Falun Gong practitioners are detained 24 hours a day.
4. Practitioners are forced to watch videos or books that slander Falun Gong.
5. People who have been transformed (coerced by authorities to give up their belief in Falun Gong) talk to practitioners 24 hours a day. They do not allow practitioners to sleep.
6. Brutal forms of torture and beatings. Practitioners are forced to stand in the sun in the summer. They are locked up and handcuffed. They are bitten by mosquitoes. They are also forced to sleep on the "deathbed" (a torture instrument where practitioners have their limbs tied to a bed frame for days at a time, unable to move at all) and hung up with fetters. Many people lose consciousness when being hung up. Some have been beaten to only have the last breath, and some have been persecuted to death.
7. Extort money from practitioners.
8. Practitioners have to pay a lot of money for food, but are given leftovers to eat, which is often not enough. During the wintertime, they are forced to take cold baths.

A Water Pump Works Well Again Without Being Repaired:

A female practitioner in a village in Liaoning Province is not rich, but she always saves money and hands it over to other practitioners to make Falun Gong materials. Once the TV at her home stopped working, and it would cost her a lot of money to have it repaired. She thought that if she spent the money to fix the TV, she would have less money to save people. Hence she decided not to do it.

Several days later her husband turned on the TV and found out that the TV worked well. Another time the water pump at her home did not function. It too would cost a lot of money to have it fixed, but she had to fix it. She said to Master in her mind: "Master, I really do not have the money!" Dafa manifested another miracle - the water pump began to function without being repaired. This really surprised her husband, a non-practitioner. Now her husband really supports her in her Dafa work. He always helps her to pick up Dafa materials and agrees to use all the money above and beyond their living expenses to save people.