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- From: Falun Dafa Canada InfoCentre <info-centre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dafa-news-ottawa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:43:15 +0000
Contempt of Court Trial Set for Newspaper and Author that Allegedly Slandered
Falun Gong in Canada
Importance of matter and threat to security of persons, particularly in China,
provides grounds for quick court date: Judge
Montreal, March 15, 2002 ---- Yesterday, Falun Gong practitioners appeared
before
Superior Court of Quebec Justice Carole Julien to present their evidence in
support
of Contempt of Court charge previously authorized by the Court against
Montreal-based
Chinese newspaper Les Presses Chinoises, its publisher Crescent Chau and Bing
He.
Madam Justice Julien, after conferring with Superior Court Chief Justice Lyse
Lemieux,
ordered that given the threat to the security of persons particularly in China
and
considering the importance of this matter, has exceptionally ordered the
contempt
trial proceed from April 15 to April 19 inclusive.
Justice Julien further ordered Les Presses Chinoises remove from its website
offending anti-Falun Gong materials.
Lawyer representing Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Michael Bergman said:
"the court is sensitive to the seriousness of the charges and the alleged
effect to
the defendant activities both in Canada and in China.The trial will give a
unique
opportunity for Falun Gong practitioners to state their case in a legal form
and to
seek the justice that would otherwise deny them in the People’s Republic of
China."
The court order is rendered in the presence of the publisher Cresent Chau
and Bing He.
On November 3, 2001, and in the following weekends,
Les Presses Chinoises continuously published articles defaming Falun Gong.
Some of the contents are word to word copy of the materials from the Chinese
Embassy.
To stop this defamation, 126 Falun Gong practitioners from Montreal,
Ottawa and Toronto filed a law suit against the paper.
From December 10, 2001 to February 7, 2002, the Quebec Superior Court
reiterated 3 times a safeguard order in 3 consecutive hearings,
each time with stricter restrictions, to prohibit the paper from publishing anti
Falun Gong publications.
However, these orders have seemed to be ignored by the paper. Especially a 12
page
special issue was published on February 2, 2002 to call the Chinese community
to "denounce" Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners filed a lawsuit suing them
for
being, "contempt of court" two weeks ago. Yesterday was the first hearing for
the
contempt charges.
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Contact: Mr. Michael Bergman (Lawyer) 514-249-1177 (Cell)
Mr. Yumin Yang 514-941-2203 (Cell)
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