E/CN.4/2001/66 page 66 284. Han Ji-zhen, from Nan-jing City, reportedly went to Beijing to appeal to the authorities on 23 December 1999. She was said to have been arrested upon arrival by a police officer, who reportedly severely beat her. She was forcefully admitted to a mental hospital, the Nan-jing Brain Hospital, where she was said to have been forced to take injections and medication which reportedly made her feel nauseous and weak. 285. The following cases of deaths in custody of Falun Gong practitioners have been transmitted by the Special Rapporteur to the Government. 286. Gao Xianming, from Guangzhou in Guangdong Province, was reportedly arrested in Tianhe park in Guangzhou city on 31 December 1999. He was allegedly subsequently transferred to the Tangxia detention centre in Tianhe district. He reportedly died in police custody on 17 January 2000 as a result of having been force-fed with highly salted water while he was tied up and had his nose covered with a wet towel. 287. Liu Xuguo was reportedly arrested in October 1999 for protesting against the ban on Falun Gong. He was said to have been sentenced to three years of “re-education through labour” and sent in early February 2000 to a labour camp in Jining, Shandong Province. He is said to have started a hunger strike before 5 February and to have been taken to a hospital the following week, where he was reportedly brutally force-fed through a tube which severely injured his wind pipe and led to a lung infection, which is said to have caused his death in the labour camp on 11 February 2000. 288. Wang Xiuying, from Daowai district of Harbin city, reportedly went to Beijing on 12 May 2000 with another practitioner. She was reportedly arrested on 13 May 2000, and detained in the Jiaomen detention centre of Chongwen district in Beijing. While in detention, she made several requests to the detention centre to allow practitioners to continue practising Falun Gong and to unconditionally release all detained practitioners. They are said to have subsequently started a hunger strike. The guards ordered that these practitioners be forced-fed with high-density salt water. Wang Xiuying was reportedly forced-fed six times, five times with high-density salt water which caused severe dehydration and loss of consciousness. After delayed emergency treatment, she reportedly died in the evening of 22 May 2000. 289. Chen Zixiu, from Beiguan Xujia Xiaozhuang, Weicheng district, Weifang city was reportedly arrested at Weifang railway station on her way to Beijing to make an appeal to the authorities, taken to Chenguan Sub-district Office in Weicheng city and detained there for forced “re-education” purposes. In the morning of 21 February 2000, her body was reportedly transferred to the municipal hospital. Her body reportedly showed the following injuries: her mouth was reportedly bloody, her teeth were broken, she had a distended abdomen, her legs were swollen and covered in black and blue bruises from the hip down. 290. Chen Ying, from Jiamusi city, Heilongjiang Province was reportedly arrested at the beginning of August 1999. She was said to have been sent back to Heilongjiang Province under police escort. On the trip from Beijing to Heilongjiang Province, she was reportedly subjected to insults, beating and threats by the police. As a result, she is believed to have jumped out of the moving train and died.