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7 Mar 2006

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Reuters

Microsoft says not involved in China journalist case

Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it had no involvement in the case of a Chinese journalist charged with sending subversive e-mails abroad under a psuedonym using a Hotmail account. The indictment of Li Yuanlong, a 45-year-old reporter, follows accusations that Internet giant Yahoo Inc. provided evidence to Chinese authorities that led to the imprisonment of two journalists...Zhou [Brian Zhou, an official with Microsoft China's public relations agency] said Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, had no information as to how the Chinese government may have identified Li...[also refers to Google]