Li Zhi was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in December 2003 in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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 for trying to join the Democracy Party of China, which is a banned organization in communist China, and for criticizing corruption. It is alleged that part of the evidence against him, namely details of his e-mail account, was provided by the Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 subsidiary of the Internet company Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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 to the Chinese authorities.

Other cases

Other cases involving political prisoners in the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 where information had been provided by Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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 are Shi Tao

Shi Tao

Shi Tao is a mainland Chinese journalist, writer and poet, who in 2005 was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years for releasing a document of the Communist Party to an overseas Chinese democracy site after Yahoo! China provided his personal details to the Chinese government.-Brief history:Shi Tao...

, Jiang Lijun

Jiang Lijun

Jiang Lijun is a Chinese freelance writer. He has been detained by the Chinese government since November 2002 for posting articles on the Internet which the government considered subversive...

, and Wang Xiaoning

Wang Xiaoning

Wang Xiaoning is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People's Republic of China for publishing controversial material online using his Yahoo! email account....

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News reports

• Dissident jailed 'after Yahoo handed evidence to police' Times online article about Li Zhi
• Man jailed for posting critical comment online Sydney Morning Herald article about Li Zhi