E/CN.4/1994/31 page 35 (q) Tang Boqiao, a student leader in Changsa during the 1989 protests, was held in six different detention centres and prisons in Hunan province following his arrest in July 1989. He was allegedly subjected to frequent, severe beatings from his cell-mates at the instigation of jail officials, as well as being struck with electric batons during his stay at Changsha No. 1 detention centre. While in Longxi prison, he was reportedly beaten, chained hand and foot and confined in a cold, damp and tiny cell. According to the Government, Tang Boqiao is now outside the country. During his internment he was never subjected to beatings, verbal abuse or corporal punishment. (r) Tashi (Lhundup Kalden), a monk at Gaden monastery in Gyama Ziang, Maldrogunkar, Tibet, was arrested on 5 March 1988. At the time of the arrest he was allegedly stripped and flogged and hit with an iron bar over the head, which rendered him unconscious. He was reportedly kept shackled hand and foot for a 10-month period. He is now allegedly confined to his hospital bed and suffers from periodic blindness and deafness and has difficulty in standing. According to the Government, Tashi was sentenced by the Lhasa Municipal People’s Intermediate Court to nine years and six months’ imprisonment for involvement in illegal separatist activities. He served sentence at the Tibet Autonomous Region prison, but then, because he contracted a disease of the cerebral blood vessels, he was released on bail for medical treatment on 31 March 1993. According to investigations, during his period of imprisonment he never underwent beatings, verbal abuse or corporal punishment. (s) Tsechok, a monk, was detained in Lhasa in 1989 and taken to the police headquarters where he was allegedly beaten with a cattle prod, sticks and rifle butts and tied up to the ceiling during an entire night. He was later transferred to Gutsa detention centre, where he was reportedly kept on an iron chair with his hands chained to the chair and his feet to a cement pillar for eight days. Subsequently he was allegedly hit with a stick with a triangular section, which left a two-inch-long scar on his head. According to the Government, the investigation of Tsechok’s circumstances is pending. (t) Wang Xizhe, detained at Guangdong Provincial No. 1 prison in Huaiji county, is alleged to be held in solitary confinement since 1988. In 1990 he reportedly went on hunger strike and was force-fed with a bamboo stick through which food was pushed down his throat. In 1991 his books and personal belongings were taken away for several months. He is said to suffer from depression and deteriorating health. According to the Government, Wang Xizhi was released on parole on 3 February 1993. He was in good health while in prison; considering his own expressed desire for quiet surroundings in which to read, the prison authorities arranged for him to occupy a comparatively roomy cell by himself, but he did normal recreational and sporting activities with the other convicts. (u) Xie Baoquan, prisoner at Mian county detention centre (Kanshousuo), Shaanxi province, was punished in the winter of 1989-1990 for involvement in a fight. He and another man were allegedly handcuffed back to back and tied with a rope, which the other prisoners had to pull as fast as they could, dragging along the two men tied up. This treatment, called "the old ox ploughing the land", left Xie Baoquan with a massive wound on his back which took several months to heal. According to the Government, the investigation of Xie Baoquan’s circumstances is pending.