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Yahoo Involved in Second Chinese Dissident Case Li Zhi accused of "inciting subversion"	By Adrian Stanciu, Sci-Tech News Editor 1st of March 2006, 11:59 GMT Adjust text size:


Official court papers about cyber-dissident Li Zhi confirm that Yahoo collaborated with the Chinese authorities, according to media group Reporters without Borders. Yahoo and local competitor Sina both provided evidence that allowed the Chinese to imprison Li as we find out from theregister.co.uk. Li was given an eight-year jail sentence in December 2003 for "inciting subversion" over comments criticizing official corruption posted on online discussion groups. He was also accused of online collaboration with the banned China Democracy Party. The verdict showed that Yahoo Hong Kong and Sina Beijing had supplied information confirming that Li Zhi had set up an email account using their services. It did not, however, say if the content of messages he sent or received had been handed over to the authorities. Court documents revealed that a local telco helped police find Li's address and telephone number based on the IP address used to access Yahoo and Sina email boxes. Last year, Yahoo was criticized over similar accusations that it helped Beijing gather evidence which led to the imprisonment of reporter Shi Tao for "divulging state secrets", by forwarding an email about the risks of referring to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests to foreign websites. According to Reporters without Borders, 49 cyber-dissidents and 32 journalists are in prison in China over internet postings criticism of Chinese authorities. In January, Google also came under attack for blocking results from searches on politically sensitive terms on its new Chinese site. Alongside Google and Yahoo, other IT giants including Microsoft and Cisco have been taken to task for their business practices in China.

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