I was arrested and detained on Oct. 31, 1999 in the Jing County detention center. I was detained in the same cell as a Dafa practitioner named Liu Lianyi, who was tortured to death. The facts described below are absolutely true and were witness by my own eyes.

Liu Lianyi, male, was approximately 54 years old, and slim. He was brought to the detention center a few days before me. He was often brutally beaten by prisoners. However, no matter how hard these prisoners beat him, how hard they forced him to quit practicing, he never uttered the word "No" when being asked if he would still practice. On Nov. 1, the second day, I was sent to the detention center where the prisoners harshly beat Liu Lianyi because he couldn't recite the prison rules. From then on, the elderly man often pressed his hands over his stomach and sat in the corner, leaning against the brick bed. Even in this state, the prisoners still harshly beat him on and off. A few days later, when Liu Lianyi returned after being interrogated, he covered his stomach with his hands and sat next to the brick bed again like a few days before. Prisoner Zhu Yongshan came over and shouted at him, "Liu Lianyi, do you still practice or not?" Liu Lianyi said: "I just feel it's good. For so many years, no matter how much medicine I had taken, my stomach problem could not be healed; after I started practicing Falun Gong, it recovered completely." Zhu asked again: "I only asked if you would still practice or not?" Liu answered: "I will." After hearing this, prisoner Zhu stomped Liu Lianyi to the floor with one kick. Liu Lianyi pressed his chest (the kicked part) with his hands, slowly stood up against the edge of the brick bed. Before standing up, he was again knocked to the floor by Zhu Yongshan's second kick. Zhu screamed: "Do you still practice or not?" Liu slowly stood up again and said: "I will!" Right after the words came out of his mouth, Zhu knocked him to the floor again. I couldn't remember how many times Liu Lianyi was knocked to the floor like this. Prisoner Zhu finally stopped when he was too tired to hit Liu further.

The next day at lunchtime, after he had only one bite of a Chinese bun, Liu Lianyi suddenly fell to the floor, curled his body up, and went into a seizure, losing control of both urine and stool. Practitioners hurriedly held up Liu's head, brought a blanket, put it under Liu, and at the same time yelled for the detention guard. However the guards didn't care and completely ignored their pleas for help. A little while later, Liu Lianyi's body stiffened and he started rolling on the ground. Upon seeing this, the prisoners realized the emergency; they also started calling the prison guard. This time, the prison guard came unhurriedly, took a look and called Liu Lianyi's name a few times. However, Liu Lianyi could no longer answer him, only struggling painfully. Someone suggested sending him to the hospital immediately. The prison guard again answered unhurriedly: "Wait and see." After a while, the prison guard saw the situation was really bad, then he called a doctor in. The doctor put emergency pills into Liu Lianyi's mouth, injected him with heart stimulant medicine, and measured his blood pressure. However, the situation didn't improve any. Finally they sent Liu Lianyi to the hospital. I never saw him again afterwards. Later, I heard that the detention center had notified Liu's family of his death, and told them he died of a heart attack. But we all know that he didn't have any heart disease. They handled the case of his death case in such a hasty manner.