Yahoo accused in jailing of 2nd China Internet user
BEIJING (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc. provided evidence to Chinese authorities that led to the imprisonment of an Internet writer, lawyers and activists said on Thursday, the second such case involving the U.S. Internet giant.
The company cooperated with Chinese police in a case that led to the 2003 arrest of Li Zhi, who was charged with subverting state power and sentenced to eight years in prison after trying to join the dissident China Democracy Party, writer Liu Xiaobo said.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-02-09T030219Z_01_PEK27612_RTRUKOC_0_US-CHINA-YAHOO.xml&rpc=22
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http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=16402
9 February 2006
Another cyberdissident imprisoned because of data provided by Yahoo
Reporters Without Borders called on Yahoo! to supply a list of all cyberdissidents it has provided data on, beginning with 81 people in China whose release the worldwide press freedom organization is currently campaigning for.
It said it had discovered that Yahoo! customer and cyberdissident Li Zhi had been given his eight-year prison sentence in December 2003 based on electronic records provided by Yahoo. How many more cases are we going to find ? it asked.
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For the Shi Tao case : www.rsf.org/article.php3 ?id_article=14884
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Google censors this news, denying the Chinese people the knowledge they need to help stop this and so many more attrocities.
http://iso.hrichina.org/public/index
Dissident Zhao Changqing Abused in Prison
Human Rights in China (HRIC) has learned that veteran dissident Zhao Changqing has been repeatedly subjected to abusive treatment in prison, including solitary confinement, most recently because he objected to singing the political anthem, "Social ism is Good."
Sources in China told HRIC that Zhao, sentenced in August 2003 to five years in prison, has been repeatedly beaten and sent into lengthy periods of solitary confinement during his incarceration in Shaanxi Provinces...
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Thanks for the info Support Freedom. (I trimmed down your full quotes to a smaller, "fair use" portion to not violate those sources' copyright.) |
