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Students Protest Treatment of Alleged Spy

CSA and AAB are planning to circulate a petition to Attorney General Janet Reno at next week's ARCO Forum event about civil rights and national security. They said they will meet early next week to consider organizing a rally.

In an open discussion following a "60 Minutes" profile on Lee, most who were present at the conference said that while Lee might be guilty of violating security rules, he is still being treated unduly harshly.

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Lee is being held in jail until his November trail. He is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, and, until recently, he was not able to speak his native Mandarin Chinese.

"It just seems like sick persecution of the man to keep him shackled and keep him in solitary confinement," Gusterson said.

Government officials said that Lee's confinement is due to his being a national security risk--still capable of delivering national secrets to other nations.

But most of those at the conference said this argument seems to make little sense.

"Taiwan. Beijing. They're about to go to war. Why would he sell secrets to the Chinese?" CSA co-president Jessica A. Eng '01 said.

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