(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Mr. Jiang Hongfu is about 52 years old and lives in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province. He began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998 and has improved his temper and become a kind person.
In May 2002, Meng Qingqi, the head of the Department of Political Security in Mishan Police Station, arrested Mr. Jiang and detained him in the No. 2 Detention Center of Mishan City because he practiced Falun Gong. Because Mr. Jiang was considered by his co-workers and neighbors to be a good person, they went to talk to the relevant departments and tried to have him released. Meng Qingqi has been extorting practitioners throughout the eight-year persecution and did not want to treat Mr. Jiang differently. Besides, Mr. Jiang Honglu, a younger brother of Mr. Jiang Hongfu's and currently detained at Mudanjiang Prison, was shot by Meng Qingqi and became handicapped as a result, leading the Jiang family to file a lawsuit against Meng. In order to fight back, Meng insisted on sending Mr. Jiang Hongfu to a forced labor camp for three years in spite of his co-workers' and neighbors' appeals. On August 29, Mr. Jiang was sent to Jixi Forced Labor Camp for one year.
At the Jixi Forced Labor Camp, Mr. Jiang was tortured by wardens Qi Min, Zhang Guohua, and others. On April 24, 2003, because practitioners at the camp did not want to cooperate with the wardens, Wang Hongwu, the party secretary of the camp, group head Zhu Lijun, assistant group head Wang Haifu, and Qi Min rushed to the practitioners' cells with dozens of the wardens. They tied the practitioners (Gong Chengge, Liu Yu, Shi Zhenwei, Zhao Bin, Jiang Hongfu, etc.) with ropes and beat them with electronic batons. Mr. Jiang, Mr. Gong Chengge, and Zhao Bin were dragged out of their cell and beaten. Mr. Gong Chengge's toes turned black from the abuse and bruises covered his body. Mr. Jiang's toenails fell off from the beatings, and he lost feeling in his legs and became crippled.
To hide the evidence of torture, the wardens pushed the wounded practitioners into the cells of criminal inmates and lied, saying that it was the inmates who had beaten the practitioners, which caused some conflicts between the practitioners and the inmates.
Seventeen days before Mr. Jiang's term expired an he could go home, the labor camp added three months to his term under the excuse of "disobedient to management." This action was taken to allow his wounds more time to recover, so that the torture at the labor camp would not be discovered. Family visits were denied.
Such an evil labor camp was rated as a "Civilized Law Enforcement Agency" at a conference of the Law Society in Jixi City.