(Clearwisdom.net) On December 23, a spokesperson for the American State
Department, Mr. Stuart Pratt, told the reporter in an interview that American
citizen Charles Li, who has been illegally detained in China for nearly one
year, had a conversation with the American consul in Shanghai on December 10,
2003. He wanted the consul to pass his greetings to practitioners, to his
fiance, Yeong-ching Foo and to American officials in Shanghai.

Mr. Pratt said that American Consulate officials had contacted the Nanjing
prison asking them to guarantee that Charles Li would no longer be abused by
prisoners and allow Li to read any book he wanted to read.
Pratt continued that Li told the American Consul in Shanghai that he was still
under surveillance and being forced to attend brainwashing sessions, but was not
forced to watch propaganda videos. This is the 23rd contact that Charles Li has
had from an American official since he was detained.
Charles' friends said that Li was beaten up, sentenced to prison, force-fed,
and forced to attend brainwashing sessions since he was arrested last January.
In order to let more Chinese people learn the truth, though being tortured, Charles
didn't give up his belief.

From the east coast to west coast, kind people
are working hard to rescue Charles Li.