2/15/2004

From the Daily Texan: The organizer of an Islamic law conference at UT Law School is questioning whether ethnic discrimination brought a Special Agent for Army Intelligence to campus Monday. Special Agent Jason Treesh confronted students at the law school, demanding a list of people who attended a conference about women and Islamic law. The conference, Islam and the Law: The Question of Sexism, included speakers from around the nation and focused on the rights of women under Islamic law. Treesh would not comment about why he was at the law school, but his supervisor, Commander Demetria Marria, said Treesh was following procedure. ...She said the two reported being approached by three Middle Eastern men who asked questions that were 'suspicious in nature.' ...Jessica Biddle, another law student who was present, said she felt unnerved by Treesh's methods of interrogation. 'I felt like I was on 'Law and Order,'' Biddle said. 'He and another woman showed their badges, but we really didn't participate in the conference...'

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