Falun Gong Practitioners Launch Law Suit in Canada Against the Sing Tao Daily Newspaper
Toronto, December 20, 2001 -- On Wednesday, December 19th, 2001
one hundred and fifty-six (156) Falun Gong practitioners filed a law suit in
Ontario Superior Court of Justice against Canada's largest Chinese language
newspaper, the Sing Tao Daily, for libel, slander, negligence and incitement of
hatred. Constitutional and Civil Rights lawyer, Mr. Rocco Galati, legal counsel
for Falun Gong, will join practitioners in a news conference in Toronto on
Friday December 21, 2001. On September 20, 2001, a full-page spread, entitled "Radical religions
advocate destroying the world", published in the Sing Tao Daily, carried
photographs and commentary placing Falun Gong with many reportedly violent and
doomsday religious cults as well as with the September 11th terrorist
attacks that had occurred only 9 days before. Falun Gong is a peaceful spiritual practice that includes meditation, gentle
exercise and profound teachings based on the principles of
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. It is enjoyed in at least 53 countries,
however, only in China it is currently targeted in a large scale persecution and
defamation campaign. Since July 1999, over 100,000 Falun Gong practitioners have
been arbitrarily arrested and detained; more than 20,000 have been sent to
labour camps without trial, thousands have been incarcerated and abused in
mental hospitals and more than 300 have been confirmed to have died from
persecution in police custody. Sources in the Chinese government admit the true
number is actually more than 1600.
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