Yahoo! Response to Concerns Regarding Its Role in Arrest of Chinese Journalist Shi Tao

Yahoo! response to concerns regarding its role in arrest of Chinese journalist Shi Tao

13 September 2005

Yahoo! spokesperson Mary Osako provided the following statement to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, in response to these items:  “Firms face moral dilemma in China”, Jane Wakefield, BBC, 7 Sep 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4222866.stm  "Information supplied by Yahoo! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison”, Reporters Without Borders, 7 Sep 2005: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14884  "Yahoo! helps Chinese cops", Rebecca MacKinnon, fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, on RConversation weblog, 7 Sep 2005: http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2005/09/yahoo_helps_chi.html

“Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based.”