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Journalist Shi Tao Released From Prison

The New York Times’ Neil Gough reports the release, 18 months early, of journalist Shi Tao, imprisoned in 2005 on the basis of information provided to Chinese authorities by tech company Yahoo. The journalist, Shi Tao, who worked in the central city of Changsha, was arrested by the Chinese authorities in 2004 for leaking “state secrets” abroad and was sentenced to a 10-year prison term in April 2005. He had used his Yahoo e-mail account to send messages to an online forum,