Tag archive: Li Zhi

International watchdog group Reporters Without Borders is implicating Internet titan Yahoo in the jailing of a Chinese cyberdissident Jiang Lijun. It marks the third time Yahoo has been accused of providing information to Chinese authorities which has been used in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese writers. According to court documents obtained by Reports Without Borders, on November 18, 2003, Chinese authorities sentenced Jiang Lijun… Read More

Members of the House International Relations Committee took turns raking representatives of Google, Yahoo, Cisco, and Microsoft over the coals regarding alleged complicity in Chinese human rights abuses and Internet censorship. “Your abhorrent activities in China are a disgrace,” said Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA). “I simply do not understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night.” U.S. Internet firms are caught… Read More

In an article posted on the U.S.-based Chinese language news portal Boxun, long-time Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo has claimed that Internet giant Yahoo cooperated with Chinese police in August 2003, leading to the identification and arrest of activist Li Zhi in 2003. Li, who tried to join the dissident Chinese Democracy Party, was charged with subverting state power and sentenced to 8 years in prison. According to Liu, who in turn… Read More