Posted on 03/22/2007 1:20:30 AM PDT by FLOutdoorsman
Yu Ling's eyes well up and her hand instinctively pats her heart at the mention of her husband.
Wang Xiaoning, her partner of 27 years, has been sitting in a Chinese prison since September 2002. He is serving a 10-year sentence for using the Internet to advocate democracy.
Two weeks ago, Mrs. Yu, 55, came to the U.S. to find a lawyer and sue Yahoo Inc.
She blames the Sunnyvale, Calif., search giant for providing evidence that helped Chinese authorities convict Mr. Wang, 57.
"I have to help my husband," she explains through a translator. "Yahoo is wrong. ... I hope Yahoo is punished and the other companies learn from it."
Mrs. Yu, who is in Fairfax to meet with lawyers, has yet to file her planned lawsuit.
As early as 2000, Mr. Wang had written articles critical of the Chinese Communist Party and distributed them through a Yahoo Group function and, when that stopped working, e-mails. His pro-democracy essays -- with titles like "To Correctly Understand China's Constitution and Propel the Democratization by Using the Constitution" -- labeled the socialist government an "authoritarian dictatorship" and called for multiparty elections.
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We need more of these stories IMO.
I never thought I would see Yahoo! as part of the tentacles of crushing chinese disidents. How can they remotely respond to this in a way that doesn't spew rhetorical mumbo jumbo, which only hides that fact they want to keep their dollars rolling in from the far east.
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Boy, that sounds familiar.
>>>>In one pending case, known as the "apartheid lawsuit," up to 100 U.S. and international companies are being sued for selling equipment to South Africa's white dictatorship and lending it money. The case, currently on appeal, says corporations such as IBM helped the racist regime stay in power.<<<<
http://ibmandtheholocaust.com
IBM and the Holocaust
I don't think so. I did a search and all I could find is that he is an "unofficial adviser" but that is to Google, not Yahoo. If you have other info please post a link.
>>>>In one pending case, known as the "apartheid lawsuit," up to 100 U.S. and international companies are being sued for selling equipment to South Africa's white dictatorship and lending it money. The case, currently on appeal, says corporations such as IBM helped the racist regime stay in power.<<<<
I smell several of the usual suspects.
Is the Human Rights Violations (HRV) Committee
http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/trccom.htm
the same group as the Human Rights Campaign?
No, he's into drinking iced tea with Chinese monks.
Sorry I forgot, he also missed some of the conversations, had to "powder is nose" from all that tea you know.
PING!
I hope she wins. And I'm a Yahoo user.
G*d no! The latter deals with the rights of Same Sex Attraction Disordered people.
Then I'm kinda confused as to what Archy meant.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa was the now-disbanded group that loudly denounced the supposed evils of the Apertheid period while keeping the blinders on as to the activities of the *one man, one vote, one time* dictatorship of Zimbabwe, just across the border, among other regional atrocities. The T&RC did have a considerable expertise at arranging nice salaries and busy staff positions for their pals, though, and your reference in your post #5 re >>>>In one pending case, known as the "apartheid lawsuit," up to 100 U.S. and international companies are being sued for selling equipment to South Africa's white dictatorship and lending it money. The case, currently on appeal, says corporations such as IBM helped the racist regime stay in power.<<<<
was what sounded familiar as to the South African T&R Commission scam artistes.
Oh, I was thinking of IBM. That was why I pinged you. You read the same book, IBM and the Holocaust. I'm not up to speed on T&RC yet.
Thanks.
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