{"id":547449,"date":"2005-12-06T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547449-yahoo-dissident-jailed-in-china.html"},"modified":"2005-12-06T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T13:06:02","slug":"yahoo-dissident-jailed-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547449-yahoo-dissident-jailed-in-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo dissident jailed in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">A Chinese dissident is doing forced labour alongside hardened criminals in a high-security jail while serving a 10-year sentence for emailing political information out of China, a rights group has said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Shi Tao, who was jailed for &quot;illegally divulging state secrets abroad&quot; on evidence provided by Yahoo! Inc, is being forced to work\u00a0 without pay in a jewellery factory attached to Chishan prison in central Hunan province, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>According to his family, many inmates have pneumonia or other respiratory ailments because of the products used in cutting and polishing the jewels and the dust created, the group said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Prison authorities sell the jewellery, it added. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The prison, located on an island in the middle of Lake Dongting,\u00a0 near the town of Yuanjiang, is a high-security centre reserved for convicts serving sentences of 10 years or more, it said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The prison could not be immediately contacted for comment. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>According to Reporters Without Borders, most of the inmates in the Chishan prison are organised crime members, political prisoners\u00a0 and followers of the Falungong spiritual movement. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Shi, 37, was convicted in April for using his email account to circulate a government order barring Chinese media from marking the 15th anniversary of the brutal June 1989 crackdown on democracy activists in Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Chinese Internet police traced the email to Shi&#8217;s Hong Kong Yahoo account after the Internet company handed over email account information. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Yahoo has defended itself, saying it was only complying with local laws, which is an integral part of its doing business in China. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Shi claimed that the order was widely circulated in China and did not constitute a &quot;state secret&quot;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Inet-Bridge<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese dissident is doing forced labour in a high-security jail for emailing political information out of China, a rights group says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}