At the end of a July a very interesting development arose in connection with the Shi Tao case, a Chinese journalist currently serving 10 years in a Chinese jail for sending an e mail via his Yahoo account http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=202. Yahoo has always claimed they didn't know the context of the request for Shi Tao's e mail account details from the Chinese authorities.
The irrepressible blog, which o occasionally write under the name of Go Lego reveals that Yahoo may have been in the words of a once famous Cabinet Secretary 'economical with the truth'. Read more about the story in 2 blogs on 31 july and 2 august here http://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs.asp?bid=50 . The new evidence has led to Rep Tom Lantos, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to open an inquiry into What Yahoo! actually knew when the Chinese ordered it to hand over information and whether Yahoo! Counsel misrepresented what Yahoo! knew to a House subcommittee last year. Interesting times. This is the San Francisco Chronicle story http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/04/BUBCRCLTH1.DTL&hw=Tom+Lantos&sn=002&sc=705.
Follow Rebecca MacKinnon's blog Rconversation, who always writes a stimulating blog especially about China and human rights http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2007/07/shi-taos-case-y.html.
September sees the case being brought by Shi Tao's mother and Wang Xiaoning's wife Yu Ling against Yahoo! under the Alien Tort Claims Act come to court. It will be interesting to see how the case evolves! Until another day.
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