Yahoo settles China dissident case

Financial Times (emphasis JRT):

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington

Published: November 14 2007 00:10 | Last updated: November 14 2007 00:10

Yahoo on Tuesday reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of two Chinese journalists who were jailed in their home country after the internet company identified their online activities to the authorities.
The ending of a human rights lawsuit brought by the families in a San Francisco district court came just a week after Jerry Yang, Yahoo chief executive, was strongly criticised by a congressional committee and urged to make recompense for his company’s actions.
Yahoo has agreed to cover the legal costs of the plaintiffs but said details of the settlement were confidential.
It said it would work to provide financial, humanitarian and legal support to the families. It would also create a humanitarian relief fund to support other dissidents and their families.
Tom Lantos, who chaired the House committee on foreign affairs hearing into the jailing of journalist Shi Tao, said the settlement was long overdue.
“It took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-technology titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo had helped send to jail. What a disgrace,” he said. [link]

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Comments

[FAIMALI FRANCESCO]

IN CHINA AS IN RUSSIA THERE HAVE BEEN DISSEDENTS? NIHILISTS? ANARCHIGTS AND TERRORISTS. THE REPRESSION OF SOCIETY WAS ENFORCED BY NOBLES THAT DOMINATED AND BY THE PREPOTENT RUTHLESS DOMINATORS WHO RULED LIKE
DESPOTS SUCH AS STALIN.
IN RUSSIA THE NIHILISTS WERE GATHERED AND KILLED. FROM THE EXTERIOR IT SEEMS THERE IS NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN RUSSIA OR CHINA. MYBE THE MEDIA IS MANOPOLISED TO SERVE THE STATE BUT NOT THE PEOPLE. IN A SOCIALIST STATE THE
MEDIA IS SUPPOSED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE BUT SERVES THE STATE TO REPRESS THE MASSES.
fAIMALI FRANCESCO.