EU honors Chinese dissident Hu Jia in absentia

The European Parliament gave a jailed Chinese dissident a one-minute standing ovation on Wednesday as it honored him in absentia with its top human rights award.

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A Chinese dissident software developer comments on government censorship and his efforts to hack the "Great Firewall of China." Includes a video interview with Bill Xia.

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A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for failing to give American lawmakers additional information about its role in the imprisonment of a Chinese dissident.

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Chinese pro-democracy activist Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison back in 2004 after Yahoo turned over his e-mails to the Chinese government, but the company has publicly claimed that it had no information about the case when the government first demanded the e-mails.

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