[FACT comments: It's all about money. We don't think such a fund could be large enough to protect Chinese victims of censorship without Yahoo!'s bankruptcy! Too little, too late. And how much will be used in administration and staff expences or eaten up by lawyers? If Yahoo! is serious, we expect to see transparency.]

Yahoo! fund aids ‘cyber dissidents’ in China
by Glenn Chapman
Agence France-Presse: April 2, 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080403/tc_afp/uschinainternetrightscompanyyahoo

Yahoo! has set up a fund to atone for revealing “cyber dissidents” to Chinese officials to aid people jailed for human rights views posted on the Internet…The fund is administered by Harry Wu, a widely-known Chinese dissident who spent 19 years in labor camps for voicing his opinions. He declined to specify how much money is in the Yahoo Human Rights Fund.

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