Yahoo Named In Chinese Torture Suit

Search engine companies get sued all the time, but it’s usually about a patent dispute, a site’s ranking, or something else relatively mundane and white-collar.  Not so in this case: Yahoo is being sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act.

No one’s suggesting that some Yahoo exec pulled out the needle-nosed pliers, though - instead, Yahoo has been accused of providing the Chinese government with information that led to a man’s arrest and torture.  And it’s actually the man’s wife, Yu Ling, who is behind the suit, as her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in China.

As one might expect, emotions are running high.  “I feel very angry,” said Yu, as reported by