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Place of Birth: Yanchi County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
About Shi Tao (journalist)
- Shi Tao (simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ??; pinyin: Shi Tao; born July 25, 1968) is a Chinese journalist, writer and poet, who in 2005 was sentenced to 10 years in prison for releasing a document of the Communist Party to an overseas Chinese democracy site.
- Yahoo! China was later discovered to have facilitated his arrest by providing his personal details to the Chinese government.
- Yahoo! was subsequently rebuked by a panel of the U.S.
- Congress, settled a lawsuit by Shi's family out of court, and pledged to reform its practices. Following Shi's arrest, he won two major international journalism awards: the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards and the Golden Pen of Freedom Award.
- On September 5, 2013, Shi Tao was released from prison.
- He received an 18-month reduction in sentencing after spending 8 and half years in prison.
- He lives in Yinchuan, Ningxia with his mother.
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