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Falun Gong followers offered to pay newspaper to publish false story, lawsuit alleges
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Canwest News ServiceMarch 25, 2009

VANCOUVER -- Falun Gong followers offered to pay the Vancouver-based Asian Pacific Post newspaper to publish a "false" story on the Divine Performing Arts show that is slated to be held in Vancouver next month, a lawsuit alleges.

That fake article was to replace one written by Asian Pacific Post staff and be authored by Falun Gong adherents, but falsely attributed to the newspaper's publisher, the lawsuit filed at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Tuesday claims.

When publisher Harbinder Singh Sewak refused, his newspapers were held hostage by the printer Epoch Press Inc., of Burnaby, which is run by Falun Gong followers, the lawsuit, filed by the The Post Group Multimedia Inc., against Epoch Press Inc., alleges.

Epoch Press Inc., had for more than two years, until January, been printing the award-winning Asian Pacific Post and its sister publications the South Asian Post, which won a Jack Webster award for excellence in journalism last year, and The Filipino Post.

The case has attracted international attention and is being touted as a showpiece to highlight the clandestine connections of the Falun Gong movement, which has been outlawed by China.