Yahoo Inc. may have helped Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion, an advocacy group for journalists said on Wednesday.
A Reuters story notes that this was the third such case involving Yahoo.
A Paris-based group, Reporters Without Borders , says it has a copy of a verdict showing that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) helped Chinese police to identify a man by the name of 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.
Yahoo appears, at this point, to be playing the "I know nothing!" card on this one.
As to China, it "has intensified a crackdown on the media in the past year, sacking newspaper editors, arresting journalists and closing publications."
As to the latter, our media, and the establishment think tanks, continue to look the other way
Filed under: Vox Populi — Steve Farrell @ 1:35 pm
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