p2pnet - rss feed: Jailed dissident’s wife to sue Yahoo
p2pnet.net news:- Chinese Net dissident Wang Xiaoning was jailed for 10 years after distributing material by email and through Yahoo! Groups he’d established anonymously in mainland China and Hong Kong.
Included in evidence used against him was information supplied by Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd, said Human Rights in China.
Now Wang’s wife, Yu Ling (right) says she plans to sue Yahoo US, “for allegedly helping to put her husband in jail in China,” says Voice of America News.
“Speaking with VOA’s Mandarin Service Wednesday after arriving in Washington, Yu Ling said Chinese police arrested her husband, Wang Xiaoning, partly because Yahoo’s Hong Kong office gave Chinese authorities information about his e-mail accounts,” says the story, going on she’s suing for damages and to demand an apology.
“In recent years, human rights groups have accused Yahoo of providing Chinese authorities with information that has led to the imprisonment of several dissidents,” says the story.
Like Google, Microsoft, Cisco and others, Yahoo’s stance is that it’s helping to improve communications with totalitarian China by cooperating with it.
Yahoo was also said to have provided evidence which ultimately allowed China to jail Jiang Lijun for four years. A Chinese court judgement showed Yahoo helped Chinese police to identify him, said Reporters Without Borders.
Shi Tao and Li Zhi were similary imprisoned, say Political Gateway and Reporters Without Borders, respectively.
Yahoo has to, “to think of a way in which the Internet phenomenon can continue to grow and reach more users and at the same time comply with local laws,” says co-founder Jerry Yang.
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Also See:
jailed for 10 years - Yahoo in 4th China jail scandal, April 28, 2006
Voice of America News - Wife of Chinese Cyber Dissident to Sue Yahoo, March 8, 2007
Jiang Lijun - Yahoo: new China scandal, April 20, 2006
Shi Tao - Yahoo Shi Tao scandal, March 31, 2006
Li Zhi - Yahoo: 2nd China ‘jail’ scandal, February 9, 2006
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