Clinton urged to help dissident exposed by Yahoo!

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September 11, 2005

Clinton urged to help dissident exposed by Yahoo!
Michael Sheridan, Far East Correspondent



THE former US president Bill Clinton has been urged to raise the case of a Chinese journalist jailed for 10 years for “disclosing state secrets” after the internet giant Yahoo! handed details of his e-mail account to the authorities.

Campaigners for press freedom were using Clinton’s scheduled presence at an internet conference in China this weekend — at which Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang was also expected — to highlight the plight of Shi Tao, a 37-year-old financial journalist.

A text of the judgment issued by a court in the city of Changsha, central China, showed that Yahoo! handed over evidence crucial to Shi’s conviction.

His crime was to send an e-mail to exiled democracy advocates in America disclosing the contents of a Communist party document outlining restrictions on the media.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1774284,00.html

[WhiteTara]

1. my, China doesn't have a single thing over

the U.S. We are becoming "them"

[pretzel4gore]

2. clinton...why not geeb sr? old cia guy, mover and shaker

big shot on campus, big shot in biz, big shot in government (public servant? hahaha yahooo) the rich kid's rich kid's rich kid...whose rich kid is now potus (botus, more like it 'bimbo of the united states') why the hell don't they ask him too?

[Tempest]

3. Here's the real irony of Clinton's speech

He's in China, being paid by Yahoo, and Yahoo was the one who gave the Chinese government the information needed to track down Tao by using his Yahoo email address.