Wan Yanhai, Phone Home

Wan Yanhai, China's most prominent AIDS activist, knows the importance of staying in touch. So on Aug. 24 when he stopped answering his cell phone, his wife was immediately alarmed. A week later, Wan is still missing. Human rights groups say he may have been arrested in Beijing for speaking out about China's growing AIDS crisis. The Shanghai-trained doctor has run afoul of authorities before, most recently in July when his Beijing-based AIDS Action Project was stripped of its legal status and forced to vacate its offices on a research institute campus. But if Wan has been picked up, who's...

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