Yahoo ! implicated in third cyberdissident trial

Found on Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday, 19 April 2006
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Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of the verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun, sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for his online pro-democracy articles, showing that Yahoo ! helped Chinese police to identify him.

"Little by little we are piecing together the evidence for what we have long suspected, that Yahoo ! is implicated in the arrest of most of the people that we have been defending," the press freedom organisation said.

Jiang Lijun, 40, was sentenced to four years in prison for "subversion" on 18 November 2003, accused of seeking to use "violent means" to impose democracy. Police believed him to be the leader of a small group of cyberdissidents, which included the young Internet-user Liu Di. She was imprisoned between November 2002 and November 2003.

Money was and still is more important than human lives. There's a lot if it in China, and that's reason enough for companies to aid the regime in the oppression of freedom-seeking people.