Yahoo Is Sued for Failing to Keep 2007 China Dissident Promises
- Company pledged aid after giving data that led to arrests
- Dissidents say firm depleted humanitarian relief fund
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Yahoo! Inc. failed to keep financial and humanitarian commitments made a decade ago after it admitted helping the Chinese government find dissidents who were later jailed, according to a lawsuit against the web company.
The suit brought by seven previously imprisoned Chinese dissidents and the wife of an eighth seeks to enforce promises made when the Sunnyvale, California-based company settled a 2007 lawsuit in San Francisco federal court. The complaint was filed Tuesday in federal court in court in Washington, D.C.