NEW YORK—Two women and a young girl who practice Falun Gong were each awarded $7000 in damages after they were denied service and kicked out of a Queens restaurant for their beliefs last year.
The New York State Division on Human Rights handed down its ruling on Oct. 2, ordering the Lucky Joy restaurant in Flushing to pay damages and prominently affix an anti-discrimination poster provided by the human rights body.
The poster starts with the words “DISCRIMINATION REALLY HURTS,” in red. In addition, the restaurant is required to establish anti-discrimination training and procedures.
On June 1, 2008, Sun Zhenyu, Huang Wei, and Huang’s daughter, Feng Xinye, had gone to the restaurant for a bite to eat after attending a Falun Gong rally near the library in Flushing.
Sun was wearing a yellow t-shirt saying “Falun Dafa is Good” and “Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance,” the core tenets of the spiritual discipline, in Chinese and English.
