February 7, 2006
Amnesty asks Yahoo! to help free POC
The international human rights organization Amnesty International has issued an urgent action asking its supporters to write to Yahoo!'s chief yahoos asking for their help in assuring the release of journalist Shi Tao.
Shi Tao was arrested after Yahoo! provided the Chinese government account holder information on him. Tao was accused of “illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities” by using his Yahoo email account and sending an email summarizing an internal Communist Party directive to a foreign source. The Communist Party directive had warned Chinese journalists of possible social unrest during the anniversary of the June 4 Movement (in memory of the Tiananmen crackdown), and directed them not to fuel it via media reports.
Amnesty considers Shi Tao a prisoner of conscience.
The urgent action is available at http://web.amnesty.org/pages/chn-310106-action-eng
Posted by marga at February 7, 2006 8:14 AM | TrackBackYahoo! has been implicated in a third case in China now, the case of Jiang Lijun. If you are interested, you can copy and email a pre-written letter to Yahoo! from my blog here: http://chinaweekly.civiblog.org/blog/EasyActivism/_archives/2006/4/24/1906909.html
You can read about the latest case at Reporters without Borders here: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17180