Yahoo provided information that helped Chinese state security officials convict a Chinese journalist for providing documents t a foreign Web site.
The journalist, Shi Tao, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June for sending an anonymous posting to a New York-based, Chinese-language Web site. His posting summarized a communication from Communist Party authorities to media outlets around the country regarding how to censor incoming foreign information to citizens of China.
Yahoo provided records showing that Shi used a computer at his workplace, Contemporary Business News, in Changsha, late in the evening of April 20, 2004, to access his Yahoo e-mail account. Authorities say the offending e-mail was sent to the New York Web site from that e-mail account around that time, according to people involved in Shi's defense.
Chinese Internet experts say Google and Yahoo routinely exclude sensitive political or religious information from searches conducted by users in mainland China.
2007-06-05
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