A person close to Bao Tong has informed The Epoch Times reporter that BaoTong’s wife, Jiang Zongcao, is still in hospital, recovering from injuries she received at the hands of government officers.

She has to remain in bed for at least three weeks, and needs further examination. She cannot leave the bed for any reason, at the risk of permanent disability. The police are watching for them in the room opposite to theirs; only relatives are allowed to visit her.

On Jan. 18, Bao was stopped while preparing to mourn former General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, and public security members pushed and beat his wife, Jiang Zongcao, necessitating her hospital stay. According to the Railway General Hospital, a bone in her vertebra was fractured, according to an X-ray.
Bao is still under house arrest; more than 10 people sit outside his home. He has been allowed only to be taken by public security department staff to see his wife once.

Bao pointed out in his published article mourning Zhao Ziyang that the Chinese Communist Party does not dare to redress Zhao Ziyang, and this reveals the weakness of its regime. The fact that Zhao was under house arrest for nearly 16 years, Bao said, is a humiliation for the CCP and its justice system.

Bao was once appointed as General Secretary Zhao’s political secretary, secretary of the Politburo Standing Committee, former member of the Central Committee, the former director of the Office of Political Reform of the CCP Central Committee in 1980s. He spent seven years in prison and one year under illegal house arrest from 1989 to 1997 for opposing Deng Xiaoping's 1989 deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown on protesting students. Bao is the highest ranking CCP official to have been sentenced on charges of "leaking state secrets" since 1989.