Trial Begins Against Chinese Newspaper Les Presses Chinoises in Montreal for Defaming Falun Gong (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net, November 10, 2003) On November 10, 2003, Falun Gong practitioners in Canada who are plaintiffs in the defamation lawsuit against the Chinese newspaper Les Presses Chinoises, gathered together in Montreal to attend the trial that began on November 10 in the Quebec Supreme Court. The chief judge expressed that this case was very important, and through coordination by the chief judge, a large courtroom that can hold more than 200 people was especially booked to receive numerous plaintiffs from Eastern Canada.

Quebec Supreme Court

The case against Les Presses Chinoises for defaming and instigating hatred against Falun Gong has lasted two years. It started November 3, 2001, when the Montreal Chinese weekly newspaper Les Presses Chinoises published an article viciously slandering Falun Gong, the founder of Falun Gong Mr. Li Hongzhi, and Falun Gong practitioners. The newspaper refused to meet with Falun Gong practitioners and continued to publish more defaming articles. It reprinted articles one after another from the state-controlled media in China. After the court issued the safeguard order on December 10, 2001 to prohibit it from publishing defamatory and hateful articles, the newspaper still published a 12-page special issue on February 2, 2002 to defame Falun Gong. (It was sued in a separate case for "Contempt of Court.")

As a lawsuit to stop the spread of hate propaganda, the final trial of this case will directly touch upon the instigator of the persecution against Falun Gong former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, his spread of vicious lies and the persecution of Falun Gong outside China. It will have some impact on a series of lawsuits against the Jiang regime filed in different countries.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2003/11/10/60331.html

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