The wife of a Yahoo user jailed in China for promoting democracy online is suing the internet search engine company for helping Chinese officials track him down and convict him.
A suit filed in federal court in San Francisco yesterday by the wife of Wang Xiaoning accuses Yahoo of "aiding and abetting" torture and human rights violations by linking her husband and others to email and online comments.
Yahoo was referred to 10 times in the Chinese court verdict on September 12, 2003 that declared Wang guilty of "incitement to subvert state power" and sentenced him to a decade in prison.
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This was already noted that Yahoo was blamed for the arrest and beating for handing info on bloggers to China, however now it's a lawsuit
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/ya...697050571.html
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