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A Letter from Ms. Yeong-Ching Foo to Her Imprisoned Fiance' Charles Li
(Clearwisdom.net)
January 19, 2004
Dear Charles:
A year has gone by and your birthday is coming up soon. This year, on January
22, the Lunar Spring Festival and your birthday happen to coincide. I miss you
very much. I wish you a happy Spring Festival and a happy birthday! I will pass
along your holiday greetings to our Teacher and to everyone else. I am so proud
to know that your commitment to Dafa is rock solid.
January 22 of this year is also the first anniversary of your arrest.
Recently, I learned some information about you from the officials at the
American Consulate in Shanghai. One of the staff members there told me that she
visited you in Nanjing prison on December 17, 2003. She found out that in
addition to brainwashing you, the prison also forces you to work. Prison
officials were still instructing inmates to beat you and confiscated your
reading materials. The inmates were still watching you around the clock and
reported your actions to prison officials.
More than one hundred Chinese currently living overseas have family members
back home being detained by Jiang's regime for practicing Falun Gong. I myself
have participated in global activities to rescue family members of overseas
Falun Gong practitioners. In California, local newspapers and TV stations have
reported on what happened to you. In this manner, many people heard about the
torments you have suffered in China. People have often told me: "Please, tell
Charles Li to remain firm in his beliefs," "What can I do to help you?" and "We
hope that you will be reunited soon." Last year, on December 14, we held an
activity in Union Square, San Francisco to send postcards appealing for the
rescue of family members of overseas Falun Gong practitioners in China. Many
people came to support us. A westerner wrote on the postcard: "Dr. Li, you
brought compassion to us. You must remain steadfast. We thank you."
On December 9, the Mayor of Irvine, California, Larry Agaron, wrote a letter
to the American ambassador in China, Mr. Randt, to appeal for his help to end
the Chinese government's transgressions against human rights, and to demand your
release and that of all other prisoners of conscience. He said: "Standing
together with millions of Americans, I request [that the Chinese government]
release Dr. Charles Li and all other prisoners of conscience immediately." The
student body of the famous University of California at Los Angeles voted 11 to 0
to pass a co-signed letter to President Bush urging him to pay close attention
to the persecution you have suffered at the hands of Jiang's regime, and
appealed to the American government to help you regain your freedom. Many
senators and congressmen wrote letters to President Bush and the State
Department urging the American government to intervene and demanding that the
Chinese government end the persecution immediately.
Many Falun Gong practitioners all over the world constantly hold rallies in
front of their local Chinese Consulates, demanding that the Chinese Government
release you immediately and unconditionally. In the middle of November, when the
practitioners in the San Francisco Bay Area learned that you were being
brainwashed three hours a day by Jiang's regime to force you to admit guilt, and
that you were beaten by drug abusers and criminal offenders in prison, they held
a press conference in front of the Chinese Consulate the next day to expose the
Jiang regime's increasing persecution. Falun Gong spokesman Huang Zuwei in
Washington DC held a press conference in front of the Chinese Embassy. He said,
"We are gathering here to support our friend and fellow-Falun Gong practitioner,
the American citizen Dr. Charles Li. Mr. Charles Li is now in a Chinese prison
bearing the torture of being brainwashed all by himself." On the evening of
Friday, November 21 candles lit up the main sports field of the American
University in Washington DC. It was a candlelight vigil organized by the Falun
Dafa Club of American University. Many students, professors, and alumni from
various backgrounds made speeches in English, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese,
urging the Chinese government to release you from your unjust detention.
I have been traveling to many places to appeal for your release. Early in
December, together with other practitioners, I made a speech before the City
Council of San Diego to expose the treatment of Jiang's regime on you by forced
brainwashing. On the same day, we attended a rally of the new governor of
California downtown. We explained the truth to over 4,000 people from all walks
of life asking them to help you return to America soon and to end the
persecution. I told them that to force you to give up his belief, Jiang's regime
mobilized one prison guard, one policeman, and six inmates to watch his every
activity, including bathroom use and sleep. They also forced you to read
materials slandering Falun Dafa. If you tried to explain the truth to them, you
were attacked and brutally tortured.
As long as the Chinese regime will not release you, we will continue to
expose all those who torment you, and their evil deeds. At the same time, we
will tell more and more people about the glory of Falun Dafa and the truth of
the persecution. We are all looking forward to the day when we welcome you back
home with fresh flowers. I firmly believe that the day is not too far away.
Yeong-Ching
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