Recently the first trial judgment was made at the Jianghan District Court of Wuhan City in the defamation lawsuit of Xiao Chuan-Guo against Sohu Information Technology Inc., Xiehe Medical University Press and Fang Shimin. This judgment astonished us in that it was evidently partial to the plaintiff while neglecting truth. Many Chinese intellectuals all over the world have peen paying attention to this lawsuit in which the court intervened an action against academic misconducts. We would like to express our opinions to the public in this open letter and also to show our support to Dr. Fang Shimin (a.k.a., Fang Zhou-zi), a well-known whistleblower against academic misconducts in China, who is supposed to be protected by law.