Newspaper Les Presses Chinoises for spreading hate propaganda against Falun
Gong set to begin trial November 10
Montreal — A Quebec Court of Appeal reinstated Falun Gong practitioners'
Motion for Contempt of Court against the Montreal Chinese Newspaper Les Presses
Chinoises and the author Bing He. The decision will be recorded in the most
prestigious law journal — Dominion Law Reports.
This decision, being included in the Dominion Law Reports,
lays an important legal foundation. It creates a precedent for lawyers in other
cases. It also establishes the standard and authority for prohibiting newspapers
from publishing defamatory and hateful articles while a civil action is pending.
The decision by the Quebec Court of Appeal described the character of Falun Gong
and its form of cultivation positively. The Court of Appeal determined that the
safeguard order to prohibit the newspaper from publishing articles and the
subsequent publications defaming Falun Gong practitioners provided sufficient
merit for the Motion for Contempt of Court.
This news is obtained at a point in which Falun Gong
practitioners' lawsuit against the Chinese newspaper Les Presses Chinoises
and author Bing He for defamation and incitement of hatred against Falun Gong
has entered the final period of trial (November 10-25, 2003).
According to individuals in the legal field, the Dominion Law
Reports has a history of more than one hundred years. Few decisions of the
Quebec Court have been included in this journal. The recording of this decision
indicates its significance.
The reviewing committee of the Dominion Law Reports considers
thousands of new decisions every week from different provinces and selects
significant and representative cases for its journal. About one percent of cases
are included, so that those in the legal field, including judges, lawyers, law
professors and students, can learn from and adopt the decisions of these cases.
Posting date: 7/Nov/2003
Original article date: 5/Nov/2003
Category: World News
