Les Presses Chinoises

Les Presses Chinoises is a Chinese-language newspaper in Montreal, Canada.

Les Presses Chinoises
Owner(s)Crescent Chau
LanguageChinese
HeadquartersMontreal
CityMontreal and Toronto
CountryCanada
Circulation15,000 (as of March 2003)

Headquartered in Montreal, as of March 2003 the Chinese-language newspaper had a circulation of 15000 in Montreal and Toronto, and was owned by Crescent Chau.[1]

Falun Gong

In 2001 and 2002, members of the Falun Gong received injunctions against Les Presses Chinoises, for the paper's attacks against the group. In 2003, over 200 members from Ottawa and Montreal again took the newspaper to court in Quebec, after it claimed that the practitioners "have sex with animals, commit murder, are involved in criminal activities, are saboteurs of the state of China, [and] are enemies of the state in China and Canada." The litigants requested damages of CA$100,000 (equivalent to $137,743 in 2021) and another injunction against the paper.[1] A Quebec court issued a cease and desist, prohibiting the newspaper from publishing hate speech and defamation. The paper did not comply, and faced contempt of court charges in March 2005.[2]

References
  1. Porter, Isabelle (4 December 2003). "La Diaspora Chinoise et la Propagande Contre le Falun Gong : Guerre de Religion" [The Chinese Diaspora and the Propaganda Against Falun Gong: Religious War]. Voir (in French). ISSN 0849-5920. Archived from the original on 29 November 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2022. Le conflit opposant le gouvernement chinois au mouvement religieux Falun Gong ne se limite pas à la Chine continentale. À Montréal, un groupe de pratiquants vient de déposer un troisième recours judiciaire, en trois ans, contre un journal local qu'ils accusent de publier de la propagande haineuse à leur endroit pour le compte du gouvernement de Pékin.
  2. Moyo, Sigcino (3 March 2005). "Falun Gong goes to war". Now. ISSN 0712-1326. Archived from the original on 19 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022. Tormented and targeted by Beijing dirty tricks campaign, the Gong bashes back with a PR push - and a slew of lawsuits
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