The World Organization for Human Rights USA has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Internet giant Yahoo in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on behalf of Yu Ling, wife of jailed Chinese dissident Wang Xiazoning. Wang was arrested by Chinese authorities in September, 2002, in part on the basis of email records and other information willingly turned over by Yahoo. In July, 2003, Wang was charged with “incitement to subvert state power,” and in September, 2003, sentenced to ten years in prison and two additional years of deprivation of political rights. The suit alleges Wang has been subjected to abuse at the hands of Chinese prison officials; his wife, Ling, currently lives in San Francisco.
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