Yahoo Could Be Sued over Jailed e-Mailer

Lawyers are preparing to sue the internet giant Yahoo over the imprisonment in China of Shi Tao, a journalist convicted of ‚illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities‘ after he sent an email to a pro-democracy website.
In 2004 Shi Tao sent an email to an American pro-democracy site about the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests. It was passed to the government by Yahoo’s Chinese partner company, resulting in Shi Tao being given a 10-year sentence of forced labour.
Excerpted from: The Observer