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China: Yahoo! implicates writer

Categories: East Asia, China, Hong Kong (China), Breaking News, Freedom of Speech, Law

Seen on the Chinese Law Prof Blog today is a post [1]on Reporters Without Borders’ announcement [2]of Yahoo!'s role in the persecution and arrest of yet another Chinese internet essayist [3], Jiang Lijun:

“As in the Shi Tao [4]case, the information was apparently provided by a Hong Kong company subject to Hong Kong law, not a mainland PRC company subject to mainland PRC law (for an analysis of which PRC laws apply in Hong Kong, click here [5]).”