When Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, emailed a Chinese dissident in New York with a directive his newspaper had received from the Chinese government warning media outlets not to cover the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, he probably never imagined his email provider would disclose his identity to authorities.

But in a move that has garnered widespread criticism from human rights activists, that’s exactly what Yahoo’s Hong Kong affiliate did.

Now Shi is serving a ten-year prison sentence for disseminating state secrets abroad.

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