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Reuters News Wire (reuters@telecom-digest.org) Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:28:14 -0500
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Yahoo Inc. may have helped Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third such case, an advocacy group for journalists said on Wednesday.
News implicating Yahoo in the imprisonment of Jiang Lijun in 2003
It was the third such case involving the U.S. Internet giant.
Yahoo was accused of providing electronic records to Chinese
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said it had obtained a copy
"Little by little we are piecing together the evidence for what we
"We hope this Internet giant will not, as it has each time it has been
But the watchdog conceded that the access code could also have been
Yahoo could not immediately be reached for comment. The company has
The 40-year-old Jiang was accused of seeking to use "violent means" to
Police believed Jiang to be the leader of a small group of Internet
The case is the latest in a string of examples that highlight the
Web search giant Google Inc. has come under fire for saying it would
In December, Microsoft Corp. shut down a blog at MSN Spaces belonging
China has intensified a crackdown on the media in the past year,
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