Yahoo probed over testimony in Chinese journalist hearings
8 August 2007
A US congressional committee announced a probe of possible discrepancies in Yahoo's testimony at 2006 hearings on the company's cooperation with Chinese authorities in their case against Shi Tao, a Chinese reporter and editor arrested after posting material on a website about a government crackdown on media and democracy, the Financial Times reported. House foreign affairs committee chairman Tom Lantos said Yahoo had "a lot of secrecy to answer for", pointing to the search company's claim that the company had no information about the nature of an investigation into Shi by Chinese authorities, though a human rights group challenged that claim by revealing translated documents to the company from Beijing State Security Bureau seeking information of suspected "illegal provision of state secrets to foreign entities." Shi Tao was sentenced to more than a decade in prison.
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