Shi Tao

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shi Tao
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 25, 1968(1968-07-25)
Age	56
Birthplace	Yanchi
Country	China
Birth City	Ningxia
Horoscope	Leo

Shi Tao Biography

Shi Tao is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 25, 1968 in Yanchi, Ningxia, China.

Shi Tao (simplified Chinese: 师涛 ; traditional Chinese: 師濤 ; pinyin: Shī Tāo ; 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.

At the request of the Chinese government, Yahoo! provided records confirming that Shi’s account had sent the e-mail. Shi was unofficially detained on 24 November 2004, and on December 14, he was officially arrested under state security laws on a charge of revealing state secrets. During Shi’s trial, his lawyer contended that his punishment should be light as the disclosure of the information had not caused great harm to China. In June, he was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.

Shi Tao Net Worth

Shi Tao is one of the richest Journalist from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shi Tao 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shi Tao was born in Yanchi County, Wuzhong, Ningxia in China in 1968. According to Liu Xiaobo, Shi became active in the democracy movement in 1989 around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests. In July 1991, he received a degree from Shanghai’s East China Normal University. He married the following year.

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The incident sparked a controversy about the business practices of Yahoo!, the Hong Kong arm of which provided technical information connecting the message and email account with Shi Tao’s computer. Yahoo! was criticized by Reporters Without Borders for acting as a “police informant”. Yahoo! was first called to testify about the incident to the House Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States Congress in 2006.

Facts & Trivia

Simone Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Shi Tao celebrates birthday on July 25 of every year.

In August 2007, Congress began an investigation into Yahoo!’s handling of the case, with Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang testifying in another hearing before Congress. The congressional panel found that Yahoo!’s 2006 testimony, in which a Yahoo! executive had wrongly claimed the company had been unaware of the reason for China’s request for information, had been “inexcusably negligent behaviour at best, and deliberately deceptive behaviour at worst”. Chairman Tom Lantos told Yang to “beg the forgiveness” of Shi’s mother, who was attending the hearing, and stated that “Much of this testimony reveals that while technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies”. Representative Christopher H. Smith stated that there was a “parallel” between Yahoo’s actions in the case and businesses that helped Nazi Germany locate Jews during the Holocaust. Yang apologized to Shi’s mother and stated that he didn’t think any Yahoo! employee “was trying to do anything wrong” and that the company was committed to “protecting and promoting free expression and privacy”. He testified that the company was also collaborating with human rights organizations on an industry code of conduct to protect human rights. Yang later met with Shi’s family.