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Article

8 Sep 2013

Author:
AAP (Australian Associated Press)

Chinese man convicted via Yahoo email free [China]

Shi Tao...was released on August 23 after serving nearly nine years of a 10-year sentence for "providing state secrets to overseas organisations"… "Shi Tao's arrest and imprisonment, because of the actions of Yahoo China, signalled a decade ago the challenges to freedom of expression of internet surveillance and privacy that we are now dealing with," [the head of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee] said…Yahoo later apologised for handing over Shi's emails to Chinese authorities. In 2007, it settled a lawsuit brought on behalf of Shi and another Chinese journalist who was convicted partly through information provided by Yahoo.

Part of the following timelines

China: Journalist jailed in 2005 for leaking “state secrets” after Yahoo handed over emails to govt. freed from prison

Yahoo! lawsuit (re China)

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