E/CN.4/2001/66 page 60 reportedly placed in single cuffs which chained their hands to their back and got further tightened as a result of movement, preventing them from sleeping. On 14 September, the cuffs were removed. They were released the next day. 250. Yin XinQin, from Da Lian city, was reportedly arrested on 30 August 1999 and placed in the Dalian detention centre. On 8 September 2000, she was reportedly chained to a fence for a total of 21 hours. On 9 September, she was said to have been chained with another practitioner back to back until the next day. On 10 September, they were chained separately with their hands behind their backs until the morning of 14 September, when they were asked to work. On the evening of the same day, they were allegedly again chained with their hands on their back. On 15 September, they were said to have been released. 251. Xin XiuJuan, from Da Lian city, was reportedly arrested on 30 August 1999 and detained in the Dalian detention centre. She was allegedly chained to the grill of the window in the jail room. On 8 September, she reportedly had rusty iron frames fixed to her feet (a method of torture known as the “under-earth jail”). She was then reportedly ordered to walk fast, which resulted in the iron frames cutting her feet. She was reportedly kept without food for six days. 252. Zhu Hang, an Associate Professor of the Department of Humanity and Social Sciences of the Dalian University of Science and Engineering in Dalian city, was reportedly arrested on 30 August 1999 when she was practising Falun Gong exercises in a park and subsequently detained in the Dalian Yao Jia detention centre in Nan Guan Ling. There she was reportedly tied to the Di Lao device (literally translated as “prison in hell” device) by which her hands and feet were reportedly chained to a heavy steel frame 20 inches high and 15 inches wide. She reportedly went on hunger strike. After seven days, the authorities reportedly ordered several guards to force feed her and caused severe injury on her mouth. They are said to have installed a pipe to feed liquid to her. She is believed to have lost consciousness because of the treatment she was subjected to and was sent to the People’s No. 2 Hospital in Dalian city to recover. She was reportedly later sent to a mental hospital by the Chinese authorities for revealing her experiences in detention. 253. Zhang ChunQing was reportedly arrested on 3 September 2000 with her granddaughter and was subsequently reportedly detained for 15 days in the Dalian Nanguan Yaojia detention centre. On 5 September, she is said to have been insulted and slapped hard on her face and hands with a ring-binder by the section chief for practising Falun Gong in prison. She was allegedly subjected to the Di Lao device. She was allegedly ordered to walk 200 feet to her cell, which she could only do one inch at a time and which took over 40 minutes, and not permitted to have it taken off to use the sanitary facilities. On 9 September, she was again insulted and placed in the Di Lao device with three other practitioners. Thirty-six other practitioners were reportedly handcuffed with self-tightening handcuffs to window rails in the prison hallway. They are said not to have been allowed to use the toilet or move their legs. On 10 September, about 30 practitioners allegedly recited together and were reportedly beaten, inter alia on their face and mouth, by five or six guards as well as by prisoners wanting to shorten their prison terms. In the evening of 10 September, they were reportedly handcuffed in twos, back-to-back, and were not allowed to move or talk. In the evening of 11 September, the handcuffs were removed. They were said to have caused blisters, swollen hands and scars.