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Nov. 2, 2007 at 8:55am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo's Executive Apologizes Over Imprisonment Of Chinese Dissident
Yahoo Executive Offers Apology to Lawmakers from the Wall Street Journal reports Michael Callahan, executive vice president and general counsel of Yahoo, issued a statement apologizing for providing incorrect information to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs over the jailed Chinese reporter.
Part of the statement read:
I neglected to directly alert the committee of this new information and that oversight led to a misunderstanding that I deeply regret and have apologized to the Committee for creating
It is alleged that Yahoo's actions have lead to the imprisonment of a dissident in China, Shi Tao. Shi Tao is now in a Chinese prison for ten years.
For more history on this topic, start with Jerry Yang & Friends Called to Testify on Chinese Dissidents Case and keep clicking back from story to story.
More coverage can be found at Techmeme.
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