[Editor's note: We just received the following e-mail from China, which we are posting in its original form, followed by an edited version to make it more easily understood.]

Hi! Every Falunese ni men hao:

I am from China. I understand you but I am not sure you say is true or not true. In fact, I have never heard that to do exercise Falun Gong will hurt. I believe you are right. I feel upset when I hear the people died for this reason. I know most of Chinese are support you, but they are in China, they are in China, they have their family, they can't say you are right, they have no choice. But I want tell you no our country made the mistake, it's the xxx Party Of China. Some leaders are bad (make sure.) I am sorry I am not good at English and my computer can't type Chinese. I just want say I support you and the history will show who right and who is wrong. If you are right, I think the history will give justice.

A Chinese who have the conscience

Aug/ 9th /2001

Edited version:

Greetings, Falun Gong practitioners:

I'm in China. I understand you but I'm not sure whether (everything you say) is true or not. But I've never heard that doing Falun Gong exercises would hurt. (In this respect,) I believe you are right. I feel sad when I hear that people have died (of persecution.) I know that most Chinese are on your side, but they are in China, and their families are also in China. They cannot support you openly, so they have no other choice (but lie against their conscience.) But I want to tell you that it's not our country who made the mistake, it's the xxx party in China. Some leaders are bad, that's for sure. I wish I could speak better English since I cannot type in Chinese right now. I just want to say that I support you and history will show who's right and who's wrong. Justice will eventually be given to you if you are right.

A Chinese with a conscience

08/09/2001

Note: words in parenthesis are added by editor.