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Yahoo! Defends China Policy

Via Red Herring.

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel admitted Friday it’s “terrible” to feel connected to the arrest of a journalist in China, but defended his company’s part in the incident.

Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based journalists’ watchdog group, said on Wednesday it obtained a copy of a verdict in the case of Jiang Lijun that shows Yahoo helped the Chinese authorities identify him. Mr. Jiang was subsequently sentenced to four years in prison in November 2003 for writing pro-democracy articles online.

“It’s terrible to feel that... we were involved with a reason that person went to jail,” Mr. Semel said.

Mr. Semel was speaking at the annual meeting of the Committee of 100, an independent, nonprofit, organization of Chinese American professionals.

posted by Fergie @ 4/22/2006 08:59:00 AM