Yahoo Accused of Collaboration in Arrest of Rights Activists

AsiaNews.it - Human rights activists denounce Yahoo! for collaboration in the arrest of Chinese dissidents

A group which campaigns for human rights in China has reported Yahoo! and its Chinese affiliates to American authorities, alleging they help communist authorities to uncover and arrest journalists and rights activists who use the Web to publish pro-democracy articles. Now they are asking for damages and the companies commitment to actively secure the release of any detainees they helped arrest.

Yahoo rivals Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. also have been accused of helping the Chinese government crush dissent in return for access to booming Internet markets. Google has offered a censored version of its popular search engine, while Microsoft shut down, at Beijing's request, a popular Chinese blog that touches on “sensitive” topics such as press freedoms.