<p>Yahoo! response to concerns regarding its role in arrest of Chinese journalist Shi Tao</p><p>13 September 2005</p><p>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</p><p>“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.”</p>