(Minghui.org)
Summary of Key Persecution Facts:
Name: Bao Wenjun (包文君)
Gender: Male
Age: About 60 years old
Address: The Hongguang Farm at Makit County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Occupation : Unknown
Date of Death: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: After release from No. 5 Prison in Xinjiang at the end of 2012, specific date unknown
Most Recent Place of Detention: Makit County Detention Center, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (麦盖提县看守所)
City: Makit County
Province: Xinjiang
Persecution Suffered : Sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, imprisonment, torture, force-feedings, home ransacked, detention
Mr. Bao Wenjun, a Falun Dafa practitioner, died after suffering years of persecution. Prior to his death, he was tortured many times, detained in a labor camp and was in a prison for five years. Further information will be provided once it becomes available.
Mr. Bao Wenjun is from the Hongguang Farm at Makit County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996.
After Mr. Bao was released from the No. 5 Prison in Xinjiang at the end of 2012, he was arrested again for distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarification materials in Seriqbuya Town in Maralbexi (Bachu) County, Kashgar Prefecture. He was held at the local police station in Bachu County and then transferred to the Makit County Detention Center.
During Mr. Bao's detention, his 84-year-old mother asked that her son be released, but her request was refused. She died before her son was released.
Mr. Bao Wenjun experienced severe diabetes during his detention. He died not long after his release.
Police from Makit County ransacked Mr. Bao's home without a search warrant in March 2007.
He was arrested in May 2007 because he mailed Falun Dafa truth-clarification materials to a number of people.
Mr. Bao was sentenced to a five-year prison term by the Makit County Court without due process on November 3, 2007.
The Kashgar Daily reported on December 6, 2007 that Bao was “using a heretical organization to undermine the implementation of law” (the blanket charge leveled at all Falun Gong practitioners) and maligned him. He was held at the No. 5 Prison in Xinjiang.
Guards at the No. 5 Prison try to brainwash practitioners in an effort to force them to renounce Falun Gong. Besides subjecting practitioners to brainwashing, they torture practitioners with a variety of methods, including forced-feeding and sleep deprivation. They also arbitrarily increase the length of the detention if a practitioner refuses to “transform.”
Mr. Bao was frequently held by the Hongguang Farm and the Jiuxiang Police Station during the year 2000, shortly after the persecution began.
On the night of November 26, 2004, Mr. Bao and fellow practitioner Ma Jixu were arrested by police from the Forty-eight Mission Police Station of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
At the time, Mr. Bao was sentenced to a one-and-an-half year term in a labor camp.
Eight practitioners and family members at the Hongguang Farm suffered harassment between November 26, 2004 and January 6, 2005. Valuable items and cash were confiscated from practitioners' homes, and because of China's implication policy, their families were also harassed by the authorities. The authorities stole 80,000 yuan (over $13,000) from just one practitioner.
The implication policy extended to local officials and people in the neighborhood of Hongguang Farm. Some officials' salaries were cut by 30 percent and the chief of the Jiuxiang Police Station lost his job.