81.   Many people are beaten or made to stand in the sun for hours for angering officials, and sleep on wooden floors in ill-ventilated cubicles.

82.   Most were members of gangs from Sichuan province, in the west, who roved through the boomtown beating people and stealing their money.

83.   Police fired tear gas at the central Republic Square and beat people indiscriminately.

84.   Ruling party militants regularly set up roadblocks in the area, beating people who could not produce a ruling party membership card, he said.

85.   Security forces burned cars and beat people with sticks and rifle butts in the capital of Kashmir on Wednesday after militants gunned down three officers.

86.   Residents say people are being beaten by police and others are being forced to pay bribes to police to be released.

87.   Shopkeepers pulled down the shutters, accusing police of beating innocent people.

88.   Several people were beaten and others were detained.

89.   Several other people were beaten with sticks, they said.

90.   Several people were badly beaten.