Yahoo Agrees to Support Families of Jailed Dissidents
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Yahoo! Inc. agreed to provide legal, humanitarian and financial support to the families of two jailed Chinese dissidents to settle claims it committed human rights abuses when it gave China information that led to the men's arrests.
Yahoo, the most-visited U.S. Web site, will also create a humanitarian relief fund to provide legal aid to other political dissidents imprisoned for expressing their views online, the company said today in a statement. Other details of the lawsuit settlement weren't disclosed.