Yahoo! gave e-mail details that helped jail Chinese writer

Yahoo! tramples humanity

Information supplied by the internet giant Yahoo! to Chinese intelligence has resulted in the conviction of a journalist for "divulging state secrets abroad", a respected international press organisation said.

Shi Tao, who worked for the daily business publication Dangdai Shang Bao Contemporary Business News) until he was arrested in November 2004, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last April, in a case underlining the stringent censorship regime which controls the Chinese media.

He was convicted of sending foreign-based websites the text of a "top secret" government message that had been sent to his newspaper. The text warned Chinese journalists of the dangers of social destabilisation and risks resulting from the return of certain dissidents on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

This boils my blood. A corporation with no principles has screwed a person in the name of profits. I can't imagine the hell of a Chinese prison.

I urge everyone to boycott Yahoo!