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Imprisoned Chinese Journalist Sues Yahoo.com

HeadlineJun 05, 2007

Meanwhile, an imprisoned Chinese journalist has joined a lawsuit against the Internet company Yahoo. The journalist Shi Tao is serving a 10-year sentence for emailing a government document about the Tiananmen Square massacre to a pro-democracy group in the United States. He was arrested after Yahoo turned over his account information to Chinese authorities. On Monday, the World Association of Newspapers gave Shi Tao its Golden Pen of Freedom Award.

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