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...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...
...increase over previous estimates. But it still falls short of those made by the United Nations, which estimates that hiv has hit more than 1.25 million Chinese. Though China is publicizing the magnitude of its hiv/aids problem, less than three weeks ago the country's most prominent aids campaigner, Wan Yanhai, vanished and appears to have been arrested. Public security officials accuse him of spilling state secrets...
...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...
...David A. Wan took over as CEO of HBSP in April, less than a week before Wetlaufer resigned...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) searches the rooms of Brian M. Wan ’05 and Michael D. Wang ’05 after the were accused of several thefts from Greenough Hall. HUPD could not comment on an ongoing investigation. Wan leaves Harvard after the incident and Wang moves out of his Greenough residence into a room in Canaday, according to several students...