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DR. CHARLES LEE, an American citizen, was arrested immediately after arriving at Guangzhou airport in January 2003. He left his home in Menlo Park, California, to join the effort in drawing attention to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese government. He has been imprisoned in China ever since. Yesterday, a crowd wearing yellow shirts bearing the legend "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" gathered outside the State Department, performing the exercises central to the practice of Falun Gong. They were there to deliver a thick packet of letters and signatures asking the State Department to bring Lee back to the...

Gang Chen, who was imprisoned in a Chinese labor camp for 18 months for practicing Falun Gong, an exercise and meditation practice, appeared at the County Courthouse in Media, Sept. 10, to protest the imprisonment of Charles Lee, a U.S. citizen, in China. Lee is a practitioner of Falun Gong, which China's leader Jiang Zemin outlawed in July 1999. Chen joined the "Coast-to-Coast Rescue Drive," which began in San Francisco, August 13, and was scheduled to end in Washington, D.C., yesterday (Sept. 16). Organizers plan to give a petition protesting the persecutions to the U.S. State Department.