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Yahoo fund aids 'cyber dissidents'
in China
AFP
Thursday, April 3, 2008
A fund set up by Yahoo to atone for revealing "cyber
dissidents" to Chinese officials is aiding people jailed
there for human rights views posted on the Internet, its overseer
said Wednesday.
Harry Wu, a widely-known Chinese dissident who spent 19 years
in labor camps for voicing his opinions, declined to say how much
money is in the Yahoo Human Rights Fund he is administering with
the help of a board of directors.
"We want to help the Chinese live better," Wu told
AFP while discussing the fund. "I'm not sure how much of
an impact we will have, but we will try."
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The fund is intended to pay for legal aid and family support
for dissidents jailed for human rights views expressed on the
Internet, especially using Yahoo services, according to Wu.
Money from the fund will also pay to educate people inside and
outside China about human rights conditions in that country, Wu
said.
"We really focus on human rights violations inside China,"
said Wu, who now lives in the United States and runs Laogai Research
Foundation, named after a Chinese word meaning re-education through
labor.
"This includes organ transplants, public execution, Laogai
camps, religious freedom, export products and dissidents fighting
for their rights."
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