Yahoo Chief Apologizes for Chinese-Dissident Incident
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Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang apologized to the mother of an imprisoned Chinese dissident during testimony at a heated Congressional hearing probing the company's role in jailing the man.
Members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee repeatedly attacked Yang and Yahoo's decision to give Chinese officials e-mail records of journalist Shi Tao, who was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.