Editor's note: To protest his illegal detention, Mr. Zhou Xiangyang has been on a hunger strike and been force-fed for six years while serving time for his faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline also known as Falun Dafa that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. It is reported that Mr. Zhou is experiencing multiple organ failure and has been taken to the prison hospital. Below is a letter submitted by a reader, also a Falun Gong practitioner, who was incarcerated with Mr. Zhou in Binghai Prison in Tianjin.