E/CN.4/2001/66 page 63 reportedly forced to stand for 13 to 14 hours without any place to lean on and without access to toilet facilities. A prison official is said to have verbally and physically abused her. On 25 September, three policemen reportedly forced her to lie on the ground, tore her mouth open and inserted pipes from her nose into her stomach to force-feed her. 267. Huang Xiuling was reportedly arrested by policemen and taken to Tiananmen police station on 9 September 1999 and was allegedly transferred to Majuqiao police station and then to Qiaozhuang detention centre. An officer is said to have ordered prisoners to beat her in order to force her to hand in her books. The prisoners subsequently reportedly pulled her arms and legs, punched and kicked her and stripped her of her clothes. The next day, she was reportedly shocked with an electric club for practising Falun Gong. She was reportedly subsequently placed in handcuffs and shackles, and dragged to each cell, where she is said to have been shocked with an electric club as a warning to other prisoners. 268. Sixty detained practitioners, who had allegedly begun a hunger strike on 7 September 1999 which continued for about nine days, amongst them two women practitioners, Zhang Xihong and Jin Gang, were reportedly interrogated for between two and three hours every day, insulted and beaten by police officers in Qiliqu detention centre in Changping county, Beijing. On 10 September, a police officer reportedly forced them to stand under the burning sun for three hours. Zhang Xihong reportedly had been on strike for 10 days and was said to have been kept in chains locking her hands and feet together, so that her head almost touched the ground when she walked. About nine other practitioners were reportedly handcuffed for practising or being suspected of practising Falun Gong exercises in the detention centre. A number of policemen of the Pre-trial Department reportedly tortured the prisoners, using belts, iron wires and screwdrivers. They allegedly forced practitioners to bow 90 degrees with their hands elevated over their heads, until they were close to losing consciousness. Jin Gang was reportedly twice severely beaten on the seventh day of her hunger strike. 269. Wang Yan was reportedly arrested by the police in Shanhaiguan city on 22 July 1999. The next day, she was said to have been transferred to Jinzhou and finally detained in the Fuzhen police station in Liaoyuan city in Jilin Province. She was reportedly beaten and insulted for refusing to sign a statement promising to give up Falun Gong. 270. Gu Zhiyou from Chongqing Tax School, Sichuan Province, was reportedly arrested on 19 July 1999. In the jail, she is said to have been subjected to 24 types of ill-treatment, including the “tiger stool” (where the thighs are reportedly tied to a bench and the legs are bent into the opposite direction by adding bricks under the heels), piercing through fingers with sharp bamboo sticks, electric chair, and electric shocks to the head and anus. 271. Zhang Xuefeng and other practitioners, amongst them Liu Xirong and Li Juhua were reportedly arrested by two officials from Daqinjia town government, in Xiaozhuanshan village on 1 January 2000. They were said to have been beaten with sticks and clubs in the village office, and further at the county office. 272. More than 300 Falun Gong practitioners, amongst them a woman whose surname was Xu, were reportedly detained in Balibao prison in Changchun city, Jilin Province, before 1 October 1999, for refusing to write so-called “confessing statements”. They are said to