The wife of a senior Chinese government official was hospitalised after being beaten up by plain clothes policemen who mistook her for a protestor outside the Hubei Communist Party committee's offices in Wuhan. Chen told her assailants she was the wife of one of the member's of the provincial Party committee, but was beaten for "more than 16 minutes" and suffered "cerebral concussion, severe bruising and shock". Mrs Chen's husband, Huang Shiming, is one of the most senior officials in Hubei's law enforcement office