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B.C. Journalist, Harassed by ‘Cult-Like’ China Protest Group, Wins Defamation Payout
The ruling includes $250,000 in general damages and $25,000 in aggravated damages after weeks of livestreamed harassment outside his home.
- On Monday, Canada's Supreme Court awarded journalist Gao Bing Chen $275,000 in defamation damages against Yun Fei Zhu, who orchestrated a 77-day harassment campaign outside his Surrey home.
- The harassment stemmed from Gao's criticism of exiled businessman Guo Wengui, who established the New Federal State with former adviser to President Donald Trump Steve Bannon, a movement critics regarded as unreliable and cult-like.
- For 11 weeks, protesters gathered outside Gao's Surrey home, playing funeral music and livestreaming to up to 100,000 people while Zhu allegedly made baseless claims that the journalist was a traitor and agent of China.
- Justice Richard Hewson noted Gao suffered 'severe distress' from the defamatory comments, forcing the journalist to consider moving his family out of Canada entirely to escape the ongoing harassment.
- Guo was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. jail for fraud in July, while Zhu admitted to continuing similar defamatory statements about Gao throughout 2024 and 2025.
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