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Torture survivor tells his story; Dr. Charles Lee survived a three-year ordeal in a Communist Chinese prison. His story of physical and mental torture reveals the true nature of the communist regime in Beijing.(Interview)

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Dr. Charles Lee of San Francisco, California, was released on January 21, 2006 from a three-year ordeal in a Communist Chinese prison. Dr. Lee is an American citizen and has been since 2002. He grew up three hours north of Shanghai, China. After attending medical school in China, he applied for a passport to the U.S.A. to get a master's degree in physiology. When he traveled back to China to aid Chinese citizens to get uncensored news, he was imprisoned and physically and mentally tortured.

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