E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.6 page 56 to the visit of President Bush, the police came to her house at 9pm, asking about her weekend plans. She told them that she would visit her mother. They said she could not. When she insisted the police relented on the condition that they take her there. On 19 November, the day the US President arrived, the police were present outside her home, and escorted her to her mother. According to Ms. Li, on Saturday nights there is usually one police car outside her home, which normally stays until 11 pm, returning at 5am the next day. However, the police stayed outside her house all night on this occasion. On Sunday, 20 November, when she asked the police, “Why are you still here, the President has gone,’ the police replied, “A human rights organization is coming to Beijing.’ In the middle of the interview with the Special Rapporteur on the evening of 24 November, Ms. Li received a call from the police asking where she was and telling her that they would come and pick her up. The Special Rapporteur immediately protested to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 11. Ms. Mao Hengfeng, aged 44, Shanghai (subject of previously transmitted communications, E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.1, para. 296) (Interviewed in Beijing on 24 November 2005). She alleges that she has been targeted by officials for various petitions she has made to Beijing authorities. In one instance, between 9 to 12 March 2003, she was detained at Daqiao Police Station, Yangpu district, Shanghai, where she was beaten heavily against a barred window. During her detention she was denied food and water, and the right to inform her family. The effect of the beatings left her numb on the left side of her body. When she was taken to the hospital, the staff found a petition written on her t-shirt, which resulted in her being taken back to the police station, where officers forcibly removed it. She was later detained from 12 to 16 March at the neighbourhood infectious disease centre and was shortly released thereafter. On 16 March 2004, she was detained, and later sentenced on 5 April 2004 to 18 months’ of re-education through labour for “disrupting social order”, to be served at the Qingpo Women’s RTL camp, Shanghai. The camp reportedly manufactures Christmas tree lights, sweaters, and small toys. She was released on 12 September 2005. During her first 15 days at the camp, education consisted of being forced to stand from 5am to 11pm, with 15 minute breaks for meals. Non-compliance would result in beatings, often by other prisoners upon the orders of the guards. On other occasions, the prisoners would be forced to march in the hot sun for a half day, and those that disobeyed would be forced to march the whole day. She reported that one prisoner, Ms. Li Limao, who was a Falun Gong practitioner, died one month after the Chinese New Year in 2005 following a punishment for disobedience. She was hung from a window from her hands tied behind her back, and with her toes just touching the floor. Mao Hengfeng reported that a “white powder” was often mixed in the prisoners’ meals which had a sedative effect. Following the 15 day education period, when she refused to work, Mao Hengfeng was placed in a cell with two other prisoners. There she was regularly forced to sit or stand for long durations at the risk of being beaten if she did not comply. Between 9 to 17 August 2004, on the orders of the guards, the prisoners had tied her arms and legs to a bed and attempted to force drugs into her mouth to force her to admit her wrongdoing. During this time she was refused access to a toilet. After 17 August 2004, she was moved to a small disciplinary cell for one week, tied to a bed, and her face covered with a mask with only a hole for her nose. Again she was forced to admit her crime, but when she accused the other prisoners of being ‘fascist’ they attempted to suffocate her. Between 9 to 12 November 2004, she was brought back to this cell, tied to the bed, and not provided with appropriate bedding and clothing despite the cold, and lack of heating. Speakers in the cell blasted loud music. Visits were granted at the discretion of the prison management, despite regulations stipulating monthly visits, and usually after injuries had sufficiently healed. Medical treatment for her injuries