In September 2003, Wang was convicted a charge of "incitement to subvert state power" and sentenced to ten years in prison.
[3] On April 18, 2007, Xiaoning's wife Yu Ling and the World Organization for Human Rights USA sued Yahoo!
[4] Described as potentially "an important test case", the suit was one of the first attempts to hold a corporation responsible for overseas human rights violations.
suit, as was Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist detained and convicted on state security charges for emailing a description of Chinese’s government’s instructions to journalists for the upcoming anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
[7] The World Organization for Human Rights USA executive director, Morton Sklar, stated: "Yahoo is guilty of 'an act of corporate irresponsibility ... Yahoo had reason to know that if they provided China with identification information that those individuals would be arrested.