Wang Xiaoningwas, a Chinese political prisoner, is suing Yahoo! for contributing to his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese government. He claims that the Hong Kong unit of Yahoo! provided Chinese authorities with the data used to link him to his email postings critcal of the Chinese government. .
The lawsuit was filed with help from the World Organisation for Human Rights USA. A Beijing reporter for The Independent was unable to open the organization's website using Google, as it is blocked by the Chinese authorities.
Google also recently acquiesced to the demands of the Chinese internet monitoring authorities by allowing political censorship of its Chinese search engine. Sites operated by Yahoo! and Microsoft also routinely block searches on politically sensitive terms.
In 2005, Yahoo! was accused of supplying data that was used to convict Shi Tao, a business journalist in Hunan province, of leaking state secrets to an overseas pro-democracy site apparently by using his Yahoo! email account.
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