Wife of Chinese cyber-dissident sues Yahoo!

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:54 PM EDT

Article Source: The Register (UK)

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The wife of a jailed Chinese cyber-dissident has traveled to the US to sue Yahoo! for its role in facilitating his prosecution.

Wang Xianoning was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in 2003 for posting what Beijing claimed were subversive materials on the net. His wife, Yu Ling, flew into the US this week with the aim of suing Yahoo! for damages and forcing the net giant to apologise for the actions of its Hong Kong division, which passed on email account information that revealed her husband's identity, the Voice of America reports.