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Topic: Yahoo Lied About Jailed Journalist to Congress
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| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 7/31/2007 3:00:58 AM | show profile This is from 'Wired' magazine online: By Ryan Singel July 30, 2007 An email subpoena sent to Yahoo! China, which led Chinese authorities to sentence journalist Shi Tao to 10 years in prison for distributing information about the Tiananmen massacre, contradicts what a Yahoo executive told Congress. The document requested identifying information on an email account used to send prohibited political information to a democracy group, saying the information was necessary to investigate a person suspected of "illegal provision of state secrets to foreign entities." However, Yahoo General Counsel Michael Callahan told Congress in 2006 that the company "had no information about the nature of the investigation" before it handed over account information to the police. Rebecca McKinnon, who has been bird-dogging this issue, says the discrepancy is not minor: So Yahoo!'s Beijing office was informed from the beginning that this was not an investigation into a potential murderer, thief, child pornographer, or terrorist, but somebody suspected of giving "state secrets" to foreigners. As Dui Hua's Joshua Rosenzweig says: "One does not have to be an expert in Chinese law to know that "state secrets" charges have often been used to punish political dissent in China." http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/yahoo-knew-more.html |
