Reporters Without Borders says 62 people are now in jail in China for Internet related writing and activity and Yahoo! helped in getting journalist, Shi Tao, jailed.


Newspaper journalist, Shi Tao, is serving a ten-year prison sentence in China for “disclosing state secrets”. Julian Pain from the media advocacy group, Reporters Without Borders,says that Yahoo! is responsible: “We have the evidence that Yahoo! is deeply involved in this case because we have the verdicts, the text of the verdicts”.

Reporters Without Borders says 62 people are now in jail in China for Internet related writing and activity.

John Taylor of Correspondents says: “China has an uneasy relationship with the Internet. Tens of thousands of police officers are believed to be employed just to patrol the web. Websites considered threatening to the Communist Government are routinely unavailable. Searches yield different results.

Internet cafes have monitoring software installed on their computers. Chat rooms are monitored and periodically closed. Companies pledge to block critical content”.

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