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Smithsonian
April 11, 2018
Zuckerberg is hardly the first Silicon Valley executive to appear before Congress as part of a larger mea culpa. In 2007, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang faced congressional reproach for his company's role in the jailing of Chinese journalist Shi Tao. A few years later, Google's then-chairman, Eric Schmidt, testifiedÃâà...
The Star Online
March 29, 2018
Emails the company handed over to the Chinese government in 2004 led to the imprisonment of journalist Shi Tao. Yahoo executives were hauled up to Capitol Hill in 2007 over the episode. With Shi's mother sobbing behind them, Yang and his colleagues were berated by Representative Tom Lantos:Ãâà...
ZAWYA
March 27, 2018
Emails the company handed over to the Chinese government in 2004 led to the imprisonment of journalist Shi Tao. Yahoo executives were hauled up to Capitol Hill in 2007 over the episode. With Shi's mother sobbing behind them, Yang and his colleagues were berated by Representative Tom Lantos:Ãâà...
ExpressNewsline
February 28, 2018
French nonprofit advocacy group Reporters without Borders has already called on journalists in China to close their iCloud accounts in wake of ... This data was used by Chinese authorities to imprison journalist Shi Tao for sending a message from Chinese authorities that was threatening to journalists.
Christian Post
February 26, 2018
This data was used by Chinese authorities to imprison journalist Shi Tao for sending a message from Chinese authorities that was threatening to journalists. "To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law," said Jerry Yang, co-founder and senior executive ofÃâà...
Motherboard
December 8, 2017
Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work examines state and corporate censorship and its impact on culture and human rights. Based in Berlin, she is the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a fellow at the Center for Internet & Human Rights atÃâà...
WIRED
August 2, 2017
In 2005, Yahoo provided information that helped Chinese authorities convict a journalist, Shi Tao. Shi had sent an ... LinkedIn's community, after all, includes China-based journalists. It wasn't long before ... Just this month, journalist Ian Johnson posted one of those notices on Twitter. Twitter is blocked inÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
July 20, 2017
CPJ is honored to present its 2017 International Press Freedom Award to Thai journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk. Pravit Rojanaphruk is one of Thailand's most prominent critical reporters and a long-time advocate for press freedom. He is currently a columnist and senior staff writer for Khaosod English (Fresh News), a websiteÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
July 20, 2017
In 2017, CPJ's Burton Benjamin Memorial Award was renamed the Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award to honor the veteran journalist and former CPJ board ... She hosted CPJ's International Press Freedom Awards dinner three times (in 2004, 2008, and 2012), and presented awards to journalists from Azerbaijan and SriÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
July 20, 2017
CPJ is honored to present its 2017 International Press Freedom Award to Cameroonian journalist Ahmed Abba. Ahmed Abba, 38, a correspondent for Radio France Internationale's (RFI) Hausa service, was arrested in July 2015 as he left a press briefing at the office of a local governor in Maroua, the capital of Cameroon'sÃâà...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
July 20, 2017
Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is the managing editor of "PBS NewsHour," a show she anchored since 2013 with her co-host, Gwen Ifill, the late veteran ... She is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to strengthening the role of women journalists worldwide.
CPJ Press Freedom Online
July 20, 2017
CPJ is honored to present its 2017 International Press Freedom Award to Afrah Nasser, a Yemeni reporter and blogger living in exile in Sweden. Afrah Nasser, an award-winning exiled Yemeni independent reporter and blogger, reports from Sweden on human rights violations, women's issues, and press freedom in herÃâà...
The Guardian
September 7, 2013
Shi Tao was jailed in 2005 after Yahoo released information about his emails to the Chinese government. Photograph: AP. A Chinese reporter who was sentenced to prison in 2005 after Yahoo disclosed details of his email has been released, a writer's group has announced. Shi Tao had been released onÃâà...
Wired News
May 2, 2008
The International PEN writers group used the United Nations-designated World Press Freedom DayMay 3 to call attention to the plight of Shi Tao, .... "At least 30 journalists and 50 cyber reporters are currently held in Chinese prisons for reporting facts or peacefully expressing their views," Balding said in aÃâà...
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