Shi Tao’s early release was announced by the writers’ organization PEN International on Saturday – 15 months before he was scheduled to be freed. Shi is a member of Independent Chinese PEN ...

Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Yahoo defended itself at the time, saying it had to abide by local laws. The writers' organisation PEN International said late on Saturday that Shi had ...

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.

Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Yahoo defended itself at the time, saying it had to abide by local laws. The group PEN International said late on Saturday that Shi had been released ...

Shi Tao (师涛) was taken from his home in Taiyuan, Shanxi, by security police on November 24, 2004, and transported back to Changsha, Hunan, where he had served as a reporter and editor for the ...

From Executive Director John Palfrey... Rep. Tom Lantos has called on Yahoo! executives to return to Congress to talk about what they knew and when in the Shi Tao case. Rep. Lantos alleges that Yahoo!

I can’t address you as the “respectful Mr. Yang”, because I write this letter for the sake of my friend Shi Tao, who is now in a Chinese prison. In preparation for writing this letter ...

Shi Tao’s early release was announced by the writers’ organization PEN International on Saturday – 15 months before he was scheduled to be freed. Shi is a member of Independent Chinese PEN ...