E/CN.4/2001/66 page 64 have been subjected to ill-treatment, such as being burnt by cigarettes and being beaten with big clubs to the extent that the clubs broke during the beating. Xu was reportedly handcuffed, hung up by a rope and beaten, which caused extensive injuries to her back. 273. Jimmy Zhimin Zou, a United States citizen was reportedly arrested on 1 December 1999 on Tiananmen Square in Beijing for being a Falun Gong practitioner and detained at Tiananmen Square police substation. There he was reportedly punched on his eyes, shoulder and arms and had his legs kicked by three police officers. He was said to have been subsequently handcuffed forcefully and to have been given electro-shocks to the waist with a stun baton. He was then reportedly sent to the Anhui Agency in Beijing, where he was reportedly detained in a room with about 30 other Falun Gong practitioners, where he was allegedly body-searched, and punched in the face, chest and stomach area by two police officers. One officer reportedly struck his feet with a baton. On the fourth day, he and two other practitioners were reportedly dragged out of their cell by seven officers for practising Falun Gong exercises. They were said to have been beaten and forced to stand facing the wall with their knees bent. 274. Fourteen students of Tsinghua University in Beijing were reportedly arrested by the police when they were attending a Falun Gong conference on the campus on 21 October 1999. They were said to have been handcuffed, beaten up and tortured. 275. Hang Jizhen, from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, reportedly went to Beijing on 23 December 1999 to appeal to the central Government against the ban on the Falun Gong. In Tiananmen Square, she was reportedly arrested and beaten. Police officers are said to have escorted her back to Nanjing and to have detained her in Nanjing mental hospital (“Nanjing Hospital for Brain Diseases”). She was reportedly given injections and pills, which are said to have caused her to feel sick and extremely weak. 276. Ding Jianhua, the head of the Department of Health Care of the Public Security Bureau of Jiangsu Province, was reportedly sent to the Nanjing Brain Hospital on 3 October 1999 for refusing to give up her belief in Falun Gong. There she was said to have been subjected to forced treatments which reportedly slowed her reactions and blurred her eyesight. 277. More than 20 practitioners, among them teachers from the Laiyang School of Medicine, teachers from Laiyang Higher Education through Broadcasting and TV, doctors from the Laiyang central hospital, and a practitioner from Qingdao city, are said to be detained at the Yantai Mental Recovering Centre, located in Laiyang city in Shandong Province as of the end of February 2000. They were reportedly forced to take medicines and given injections. They were further said to have been required to pay expensive medical fees. 278. Bai Lili, Xu Wei (aged 4), Wang Youqun and Wang Shuge, four females, and Yu Tian (aged 5), Zhao Qun, Li Hongshen, Luo Lijuan, Fei Menlin, Ju Linyan and other Falun Gong practitioners reportedly gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on 4 February 2000 to appeal to the Chinese central authorities in relation to the ban on Falun Gong. Lili Bai and Wang Shuge, who were holding up flags with the Falun Gong emblem were reportedly pushed to the ground and brutally beaten, especially on the face, by police officers attempting to seize the flags. They were reportedly subsequently arrested. Practitioners