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Lawsuit filed by Human Rights USA against Yahoo - Jailed Chinese Journalist joins lawsuit

In April of 2007 the World Organization for Human Rights USA filed a law suit against Yahoo for complicity in sharing identification information of internet users with Chinese authorities.  Two Chinese journalists are serving 10 year prison sentences for publishing material that government authorities considered subversive. 

The case is filed in the US. District Court California Northern District: Civil Docket # 407-cv-02151-CW
Read the complaint here.
Good overviews of the case can be found here and here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Beijing's Bankruptcy Laws

The Wall Street Journal Online, October 17, 2006, has an interesting article on China's new bankruptcy law titled, Beijing's Bankruptcy Law.

Enacted in August by China's legislature, the National People's Congress, it comes into force next June 1. A formal corporate-bankruptcy procedure will be created, with administrators appointed by judges, not the government, as was the case under the old law. Creditors go to the front of the queue for payment, ahead of employees. Creditor committees get a strong role in supervising the bankruptcy process, which means that professionals -- perhaps including foreign lawyers and accountants -- will be running the process, rather than Communist Party officials.

Read the entire article here.

Read an account of the new bankruptcy law from China View here.

Posted by Jon Lutz