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Chinese Journalist Jailed Over Email is Released

  • PC World, Monday, September 9, 2013 2:26 PM

Chinese journalist Shi Tao who was jailed for eight years because of incriminating email records has been freed by the Chinese police. He was released a year and a half before completing his 10 year sentence.Tao was arrested in 2004 for sending an email that revealed Chinese government restrictions on the local media for the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. He sent the email with his Yahoo account and was then posted on a website based in New York that promotes democracy in China.

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