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Yahoo! Accused for Third Arrest
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Apr 20,2006
In what can only be termed as a rather deplorable compromise in the name of business, Yahoo! has turned over one of its users' draft e-mails to Chinese authorities, who used the information to jail the account holder on subversion charges. This startling but unsurprising fact was uncovered by a group named Reporters Without Borders. This is the third time Yahoo! has been accused of helping put a Chinese user in prison.

Jiang Lijun, 39, was given a four-year sentence in November 2003 for subversive activities aimed at overthrowing the ruling Communist Party.Yahoo!'s Hong Kong unit gave authorities a draft e-mail that had been saved on Jiang's account, the Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders, said Wednesday night, providing a copy of the verdict by the Beijing No. 2 People's Court.

This is in my eyes a very bad trend. While Yahoo! has tried to wriggle out of this by saying it was only complying with local business practices the reality is that China is getting away with subverting the truth and crushing dissidents ruthlessly. While China encourages use of the Internet for business and education, it also tightly controls Web content, censoring anything it considers critical or a threat to communism. The truth is Yahoo! in this case is directly responsible for a human being loosing his freedom and his right to express himself.
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