Italy: Chinese Language Newspaper in Milan Found Guilty of Slandering Falun Gong
By an Italian practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) The Italian Falun Dafa Association brought an
accusation against the European Chinese Newspaper for libel. On July 6th,
2006, a Milan Court ruled that the accusation against Dall' Alba, the director
of the Chinese newspaper, and Jiang Ming, the reporter (his pen name is Taishan)
had been proved, and imposed a hefty fine as a punishment. During February and March of 2002, European Chinese Newspaper carried
many articles slandering Falun Gong practitioners and spread hatred among the
Chinese Community. These articles played a part in assisting the carrying out of
the persecution of Falun Gong initiated by Jiang Zemin, the former leader of
China. The shocking news that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has removed
organs from living Falun Gong practitioners and subsequently sold them, which
has been recently exposed, shows that the persecution is so severe that it has
far exceeded people's imagination. Judge Cernuto said in a statement to the court that the defending arguments
of the accused did not hold water because they should have had enough resources
and conditions to come to know the facts about Falun Dafa, the persecution of
which has been reported on by many international organizations such as Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, The Freedom House, The UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights, The UN Human Rights Committee and Hands Off Cain. After hearing the result of the judgment today, Mr. Fava, Chairman of the
Italian Falun Dafa Association, said, "The judgment of the Milan Court is
the first one we have received. We have also prosecuted some other Chinese
newspapers who have done similar things. The case is under examination in the
Rome Courts at the moment. We are expressing our welcome to the judgment from
the Milan Court. Although the judgment has not completely included some aspects
of the CCP regime's cruel persecution of Falun Dafa, it has comprehensively
confirmed the fact that the European Chinese Newspaper carried a series
of articles slandering Falun Gong practitioners. These articles are exactly a
part of the CCP regime's stigmatization of Falun Dafa and justification of its
persecution. If their actions are not stopped, they will have an adverse impact
on public opinion within the Chinese communities in Italy and on the part of
Italian citizens."
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