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Rights Group Sues Yahoo for Aiding China Crackdown

HeadlineAug 28, 2007

And an American group is suing the Internet giant Yahoo for allegedly aiding human rights abuses and torture in China. The World Organization for Human Rights says Chinese writers and dissidents have been arrested and abused out of Yahoo’s sharing of information with the Chinese government. The journalist Shi Tao was jailed for 10 years after Yahoo passed on his email and Internet protocol address to Chinese officials.

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