E/CN.4/2001/66 page 61 254. Shuzhen Lu, the 71-year-old mother of Hingzhi Li, the founder of the Falun Gong movement, has reportedly been kept under house arrest in a suburb of Beijing since 22 July 2000. She is said to be suffering from a heart problem, which reportedly has worsened since her house arrest, leading to a diminution of her vision and a swelling of her legs, restricting her from moving around. The police reportedly refused to offer her medical treatment or to provide her with sufficient food and water. 255. Xu Yanzhong, from Jiaozhou city, Shandong Province was reportedly sent on 25 April 2000 to the mental hospital of Jiaozhou city for practising Falun Gong. He was said to have been tied up and forced to take medicine and have injections in the 10 days that followed. He allegedly suffered physical and mental mistreatment. As a result of the injections, he reportedly suffered weakness all over his body, difficulty in opening his eyes, nervousness and depression. 256. Kuang Bencui, from Jiaozhou city, Shandong Province, reportedly went to Beijing. On her way to Tiananmen Square, she was reportedly arrested and sent to the Jiaozhou Liaison Office in Beijing. Then, she was sent to the mental hospital of Jiaozhou city. During her time in the mental hospital, she was reportedly forced to take medicine and have injections. When she refused, two men allegedly seized her arms, pinched her nose and drove a chopstick between her teeth to force-feed her with medicine. She was reportedly force-fed three times a day, the dosage being increased from one tablet at a time to six tablets at a time. 257. Tan Guihua,was reportedly arrested by officers from her work unit and the Politics and Law Commission in her home on 12 September 1999 and taken to the mental hospital. There, she was given an injection. As a result, she reportedly felt faint and sick and her heart beat accelerated rapidly. She allegedly lost consciousness. She received electric shocks on seven occasions. After an injection, her periods reportedly stopped, she could not move her eyes and had slowed-down reactions. A few days later, another medicine was said to have been added to the injection. As a result, Tan Guihua’s body shook violently. This was said to have lasted 20 days. At the time of her release, she reportedly suffered from memory loss, she had problems speaking, her eyes were dull and her reactions had slowed down. 258. Huang Jinchun, a civil court judge at the Beihai Intermediate People’s Court in southern Guangxi Autonomous Region was reportedly arrested at his home on 15 November 1999 and detained at the Long Qianshan mental hospital in the city of Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. There he is said to have been prevented from seeing his family for three months and to have been injected with tranquilizers after he continued to practise Falun Gong meditation at the institution. 259. Wang Fenglan from Yujia village in Shiduitou, Ma Yufeng from Xiaojiajia, Zhan Keyun, Wang Haohong, from Heya village, and Zhao Jinhua, a resident of Zhaoyuan city in Shandong Province, were reportedly arrested on 27 September 1999 by the Zhangxing County police. They were said to have been detained in the local police station, where they were allegedly subjected to ill-treatment by police officers for refusing to read a book that denounced Falun Gong. On 1 October 1999, while the practitioners were reportedly doing the Falun Gong exercises, a number of police officers entered the cell and violently kicked and punched them