Yahoo (YHOO) has turned over a draft e-mail from one of its users to
Chinese authorities, who used the information to jail the man on
subversion charges. It was the third time the Internet company has
been accused of helping put a Chinese user in prison. Jiang Lijun,
39, was sentenced to four years in prison for subversive activities.
Jiang also was one of five activists who signed an open letter
calling for political reform that was posted on the Internet ahead
of the Communist Party congress." 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 we have been
defending," Reporters Without Borders" (a civil rights group) said
in a statement. The group said there were other cases that were
similar, but it could not release any details because they were
still being investigated.
While China encourages use of the Internet for business and
education, it also tightly controls Web content, censoring anything
it considers critical or a threat to the Communist Party. Blogs
often are shut down, and users who post articles promoting Western-
style democracy and freedom are regularly detained and jailed under
vaguely worded subversion charges. American lawmakers have taken
the company to task, accusing them at congressional hearings of
helping China crush dissidents in return for access to its lucrative
and rapidly expanding Internet market.

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