Alberta Lee, daughter of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, the Chinese-American scientist whose much-publicized wrongful imprisonment has contributed to the public's awareness of the issue of racial profiling, will visit the UW-Madison campus on Monday, February 18, to speak on Racial Profiling at noon in the Law School's Lubar Commons (Room 7200). Ms. Lee will also speak on racial profiling at Memorial Union at 4:30 p.m. on the same day. Her visit to campus is sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and South Asian Law Students Association. Wen Ho Lee, the former scientist at Los Alamos, New Mexico nuclear laboratories who was charged with nuclear weapons espionage, is a Taiwanese-born naturalized citizen. He was arrested in December 1999 and indicted on 59 felony counts alleging that he transferred nuclear weapons information to unsecured computers and tape. He was held in solitary confinement, sometimes shackled, for nine months, though never charged with spying. He is the author of a newly released memoir, My Country Versus Me. U.S. District Judge James Parker in Albuquerque blasted government officials and read a written apology to Lee upon his Sept. 13, 2000, release. Lee pleaded guilty to one count of downloading restricted material to a data tape, and was released. Lee said he downloaded the material because his earlier work had been lost on three occasions at the national laboratory during computer upgrades. "I decided to copy my work and data onto one tape," he said. "I'm a cautious person." Lee is pursuing actions against the government for the investigation into his case and his treatment in prison. Alberta Lee is a graduate of UCLA and a technical writer who lives in San Francisco. She led the fight for her father's release.

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