A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 59 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response approximately 7.30 a.m., Mr. Zheng Enchong went to the Shanghai Municipal Higher People’s Court with his wife to register to attend the trial of Mr. Zhou Zhenghyi, a property developer. On their arrival at the courthouse they were surrounded by six police officers. Mr. Zheng Enchong was knocked to the ground, and they dragged him along the ground and beat him for almost an hour. Mr. Enchong sustained injuries to his left hand in the course of the assault which was witnessed by hundreds of residents in the vicinity. The police officers forced Mr. Zheng Enchong and his wife into a taxi and were driven to his sister-in-law’s house, where they were met by five police vehicles and more than 30 police officers who prevented them from leaving. Higher People’s Court …, in order to register to attend the trial of Mr. Zhou Zhengyi”, that he was dragged 200 metres along the ground by six police officers, and subjected to an assault which lasted for one hour and that he was then forced to leave, and that, on that same day, at approximately 9 a.m., “more than 50 displaced residents … presented themselves … in order to attend the trial of Mr. Zhou Zhengyi” but that “security guards and police officers prevented them from entering the building” are simply not true. Enquiries have shown that the second division of the Shanghai city people’s procurator’s office only filed charges against Zhou Zhengyi with the Shanghai people’s intermediate court on 17 August 2007: thus it was not possible for anyone to have attended the trial at the Shanghai people’s high court on 24 July. The six persons named in the letter are not to be found among the judicial police of the Shanghai people’s high court. At about 9 a.m. on 24 July, dozens of people claiming to be forcibly relocated residents from “Dongbakuai” (“Lot East 8”) demanded to attend the trial of Zhou Zhengyi. But following a perusal of the schedule of court hearings, and confirmation and notification that the Shanghai people’s high court was not holding any hearings that day, the people that had gathered promptly withdrew, no one tried to gain entry to the court and the security guards and police did not need to take any preventive action.