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The Missing Man

Reason Staff | 1.28.2009 4:04 AM

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Chinese human rights activist Yao Lifa disappeared just two days before he was to attend a reception at a United States consulate to celebrate Barack Obama's inauguration. Family member say the government has detained him before and officials did not want him to attend the reception.

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