http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031121/frontpage/154653.shtmlSEATTLE -- Muslim and Chinese-American advocates angrily denounced the treatment of detained Army chaplain James Yee and demanded his release on Thursday.
Yee, a Chinese-American, was arrested Sept. 10 while flying home to meet his wife, Huda, and their 3-year-old daughter, who live in Olympia. He has been charged with violating regulations that govern safeguarding classified information. He counseled al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.
... Advocates say Yee is innocent of the charges and that the military violated his civil rights by detaining him on charges that typically are handled administratively.
Mohammad Kaddourz, co-founder of the Seattle-based Arab American Community Coalition, called on the Bush administration to end the hypocrisy of fighting overseas to install freedom and justice in Iraq while denying those rights at home.
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