Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan have been requested to attend a House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting over Yahoo’s role in the incarceration of a journalist in China.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan have been requested to attend a House Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting over Yahoo’s role in the incarceration of a journalist in China.

The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives had a few choice words for Yahoo after discovering company executives knew more than they let on about the arrest of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist jailed for speaking against the state.