The journalists’ advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports today that newly obtained court documents show Yahoo played a role in the imprisonment of yet another Chinese internet dissident:
Reporters Without Borders has obtained a copy of the verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun, sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for his online pro-democracy articles, showing that Yahoo ! helped Chinese police to identify him. It is the third such case, following those of Shi Tao and Li Zhi, proving the implication of the American Internet company.
(…)According to the verdict, Yahoo ! Holdings (Hong Kong) confirmed that the email account ZYMZd2002 had been used jointly by Jiang Lijun and another pro-democracy activist, Li Yibing.
Link, and here is a PDF Link to the English translation of the court document.
Snip from a related AP item:
Yahoo’s Hong Kong unit gave authorities a draft e-mail that had been saved on Jiang’s account, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said, citing the verdict by the Beijing No. 2 People’s Court. The group provided a copy of the verdict, which it said it obtained this week. (…)
Entitled “Declaration,” the draft was similar to manuscripts called “Freedom and Democracy Party Program” and “Declaration of Establishment” that were recovered from a computer and a floppy disk owned by two other Internet activists, the verdict said.
Link.
Previously:
– PEN files complaint against Yahoo over Shi Tao
– HK lawmaker: Yahoo unit had role in Shi Tao’s jailing
– Report: verdict confirms Yahoo helped jail Li Zhi
– NPR: Yahoo may have aided in jailing of second China writer
– Xeni’s LAT op-ed: war, blogs, news, and profit.