(Minghui.org) Mr. Jiang Xiandong was set to be released on June 20 after serving two years for refusing to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime. However, regaining his freedom was not easy.

Mr. Jiang Xiandong

The 41-year-old Beijing man was let out of the prison at 6:00 a.m. on that day. His family wasn’t there, as they were told to pick him up at 8:00 a.m.

Awaiting Mr. Jiang were agents from four departments, including the local 610 Office (an extralegal agency tasked with eradicating Falun Gong), police station, Daxing Judicial Bureau, and his employer, Daxing County Statistics Bureau.

A supervisor from his workplace greeted him with an employment termination letter, which he refused to sign. As no law in China criminalizes Falun Gong, Mr. Jiang believes that he should never have been imprisoned for his faith in the first place, let alone lose his job for that reason.

This group of people then forcibly stuffed him into a car and drove him to a local brainwashing center. Mr. Jiang came to see that the authorities intended to put him through brainwashing sessions in their attempt to force him to give up his belief.

He protested, “There's no way I am going to stop practicing Falun Gong. You’d be committing false imprisonment if you don't release me within 24 hours. I'm very weak from two years’ imprisonment and need to go home to rest. You'll be held responsible if anything happens to me. You haven’t told my family what happened. I demand to call them right now.”

The agents relented and drove him back to prison, just when his family arrived to pick him up.

Mr. Jiang later learned that it is regular practice for the prison to gave Falun Gong practitioners' families a late pickup time, only to transfer practitioners to police to be taken directly to brainwashing centers.

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