[lit-ideas] Yahoo! Nails Another Writer
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:26:11 -0400
Yahoo accused of helping jail China Internet writer
BEIJING (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. may have helped
Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who
was subsequently jailed for four years for
subversion in the third such case, an advocacy
group for journalists said on Wednesday.
News implicating Yahoo in the imprisonment of
Jiang Lijun in 2003 surfaced on the eve of a
summit between Chinese President Hu Jintao and
President Bush in Washington.
It was the third such case involving the U.S.
Internet giant.
Yahoo was accused of providing electronic records
to Chinese authorities that led to an eight-year
prison term for Li Zhi for subversion in 2003 and
of helping to identify Shi Tao, who was accused of
leaking state secrets abroad and jailed last year
for 10 years.
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said it
had obtained a copy of the verdict showing that
Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) helped Chinese police
to identify Jiang by confirming that the e-mail
account ZYMZd2002 had been used jointly by Jiang
and another pro-democracy activist Li Yibing.
"Little by little we are piecing together the
evidence for what we have long suspected, that
Yahoo! is implicated in the arrest of most of the
people that we have been defending," the group said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-04-19T153749Z_01_PEK23834_RTRUKOC_0_US-RIGHTS-CHINA-INTERNET.xml&rpc=22
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