CBS News | Yahoo, China, And Human Rights | September 9, 2005 11:30:06: "Yahoo, China, And Human Rights
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HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2005
(AP / CBS)
'We think Yahoo's role is very sad in this case, and we hope Yahoo reexamines its policies.'
Abi Wright,
Committee to Protect Journalists
(Christian Science Monitor) This article was written by Robert Marquand.
The role of the U.S. Internet firm Yahoo in helping Chinese security officials to finger a journalist sentenced to 10 years for e-mailing 'state secrets' is filtering into mainland China. The revelation reinforces a conviction among many Chinese 'netizens' that there is no place security forces can't find them.
Yet if netizen reaction in China is resignation, the story of Yahoo's complicity in the arrest of Shi Tao, a journalist with the Contemporary Trade News in Hunan, brought a spontaneous uproar among Western human rights and business watchdogs.
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