{"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 – Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Mure Dickie"},"content":{"rendered":"
From Financial Times:<\/p>\n
A top Yahoo official who has come under fire for the company’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<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Michael Callahan<\/a>, Yahoo’s executive vice president and general counsel, said in a statement ahead of a congressional hearing next week that he “realised” that Yahoo had additional information about the nature of the probe into one of its users, Shi Tao<\/a>, a journalist now serving a 10-year prison sentence in China, months after he testified that Yahoo had “no information” about the investigation. [Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n