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US lawmakers accused Yahoo of giving false information to Congress and asked that chief executive Jerry Yang appear before a committee to explain the internet search company's role in the imprisonment of a Chinese dissident.
Aparently, "a human rights group, released documents that ~ showed that Chinese police had written to Yahoo specifying they sought evidence about Mr Shi in a case of 'illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities', a charge often invoked against political dissidents."
Onya
Woz
[edited by: bill at 9:34 am (utc) on Oct. 18, 2007]