{"id":15403,"date":"2007-11-02T03:31:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T10:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/11\/02\/yahoo-in-apology-on-china-stephanie-kirchgaessner-and-mure-dickie\/"},"modified":"2007-11-02T03:31:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T10:31:17","slug":"yahoo-in-apology-on-china-stephanie-kirchgaessner-and-mure-dickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/11\/yahoo-in-apology-on-china-stephanie-kirchgaessner-and-mure-dickie\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo In Apology On China &#8211; Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Mure Dickie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Financial Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A top Yahoo official who has come under fire for the company&#8217;s role in the 2004 imprisonment of a dissident in China apologised on Thursday for failing to tell US lawmakers that Yahoo knew more about the case than he initially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/business\/YahooStatement.pdf\">acknowledged in testimony last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.yahoo.com\/docs\/pr\/release1111.html\">Michael Callahan<\/a>, Yahoo&#8217;s executive vice president and general counsel, said in a statement ahead of a congressional hearing next week that he &#8220;realised&#8221; that Yahoo had additional information about the nature of the probe into one of its users, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shi_Tao\">Shi Tao<\/a>, a journalist now serving a 10-year prison sentence in China, months after he testified that Yahoo had &#8220;no information&#8221; about the investigation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/b435e136-88b5-11dc-84c9-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read also <a href=\"http:\/\/rconversation.blogs.com\/rconversation\/2007\/11\/yahoo-apologize.html\">Yahoo! apologizes ahead of Congressional grilling<\/a> by Rebecca MacKinnon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Financial Times: A top Yahoo official who has come under fire for the company&#8217;s role in the 2004 imprisonment of a dissident in China apologised on Thursday for failing to tell US lawmakers that Yahoo knew more about the case than he initially acknowledged in testimony last year. 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