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...been arrested and held in isolation by the government as “enemy combatants,” a legal fiction that has somehow trumped the Constitution. Other Americans have been singled out for scrutiny solely because of their ethnic background. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and his coterie of activist justices just do not care as long as states’ rights are upheld. At the nation’s leading university, a commencement-day speaker who wanted to tell of his experience as a Muslim American came under ruthless attack as an apologist for terrorists. Fellow students who should...
...DETAINED. WAN YANHAI, 38, Chinese activist whose aggressive campaign to bring the country's AIDS crisis to light has long made him an object of official suspicion and surveillance; by police at an undisclosed location. A colleague at Wan's Aizhi (AIDS) Action Project reports being informed by the Ministry of State Security that Wan, who was last seen on Aug. 24 at a Beijing film screening, is under investigation for leaking "state secrets...
...China: AIDS Activist Missing Milestones...
...INDICTED. Seattle-based Islamic activist JAMES UJAAMA, 36, for conspiring to recruit, train and provide facilities for al-Qaeda terrorists in the United States; by a federal grand jury in Seattle. Ujaama, who denies any wrongdoing, has alleged that the U.S. government "knew about the events of Sept. 11 prior to the attack on New York, and refused to intervene in lieu of economic and political gains." He is in federal custody at an undisclosed location...
...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...