Shi Tao - in prison for sending an email
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Uploaded by AmnestyUSA on Feb 19, 2008
http://www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/?c=yt
In April 2004, the Chinese journalist Shi Tao used his Yahoo! email account to send a message to a U.S.-based pro-democracy website. In his email, he summarized a government order directing media organizations in China to downplay the upcoming 15th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy activists. Police arrested him in November 2004, charging him with "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities." Authorities used email account holder information supplied by Yahoo! to convict Shi Tao in April 2005 and sentence him to 10 years in prison.
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@wiseye61 Actually, Amnesty's "written" actions (letters, cards, emails, faxes) helped free more than 40 000 political prisonners since 1961. Even if they don't read every single letters, leaders are affected when the receive thousands and thousands of letter...
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well thats what he gets for sending stupid emails.
hahaha jk.
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Keep writing it makes a difference and they do read it.
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why even bother they obviously won't read it.
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the amnesty international club in my school just wrote letters today for him!
MiZNYCBnR 3 years ago 6
Cool video thanks for posting
ThailandTL 3 years ago 3