E/CN.4/2001/66 page 65 holding banners were allegedly beaten by plain-clothes agents and uniformed police officers and taken to the Tiananmen Square police station. A family, including a 5-year-old child, Yu Tian, were arrested. The practitioners from Linyi, Shandong Province, Zhao Qun, Xu Wei, and Li Hongshen were reportedly beaten to the ground by six police officers and were subsequently taken to a police van. More than 100 practitioners who are said to have practised meditation sitting in the north-eastern corner of the square were reportedly frantically beaten. Women practitioners were allegedly dragged to police vans by their hair. Dai, a practitioner from Australia, was said to have been kicked in the back three times by a police officer and then arrested. Zhen, a practitioner from Linyi district of Shandong Province, was reportedly severely beaten and had blood on his face. 279. Liu Wenjie, Wang Hongbin, Zhang Zhaodong, and three women, Li Qun, Qu Xiuhua and Liu Shuziang, were amongst thousands of practitioners who reportedly petitioned the Governmental Appeal Bureau in Dalian city, Liaoning Province on 20 July 1999. Policemen reportedly started beating them, in particular young male practitioners. Li Qun was reportedly dragged by her hair and arrested along with nine other practitioners. In the police station, many practitioners were said to have been beaten. 280. Six Falun Gong practitioners who had reportedly been arrested for appealing to the central authorities in mid-1999 were reportedly paraded in the streets of Liqiaoxi village, Guangrao county, in Shangdong Province in order to dissuade other Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing. The so-called “parade” was reportedly led by five police cars and followed by a police truck hung with anti-Falun Gong banners. The practitioners, who were reportedly forced to wear large paper hats and only thin clothing in the cold temperature, allegedly stood on both sides of the truck. 281. Fifteen Falun Gong practitioners who had gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong were reportedly forcibly marched barefoot through the crowded streets of Pengjia town in Shuangliu county, Sichuan Province, by the local police on 8 January 2000. 282. Zhao Xin, a lecturer of Beijing Industry and Commerce University, who was reportedly arrested on 19 June 2000 by police officers of the Haidian police substation when she practised Falun Gong exercises in the park. Several days later, her family is said to have received a “critically ill” notice about their daughter, detailing that the fourth, fifth and sixth vertebrae in her neck were fractured, that she had minor injuries to her head, that her left eye was bruised and swollen and that she had problems breathing. She was reportedly transferred to Haidian hospital in shackles and handcuffs. In hospital, she is said to be fed intravenously and to be supported on a respirator. 283. Cheng Zhong was reportedly approached in Menghe town of Wujin city, Jiangsu Province by a group of policemen and members of the Department of Civic Affairs on 25 September 1999 and taken to the “Centre for Mental Diseases”, Hospital No. 102 in Changzhou. He was reportedly threatened. On 28 September, he was reportedly taken by police officers to a mental hospital, the Third Hospital of Wujin city, where he was reportedly forcibly medicated and subjected to electric shocks five times by doctors or policemen. He was forcibly given medication for more than 10 days.