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Chinese hack into film festival site
http://www.theage.com.au/national/chinese-hack-into-film-festival-site-20090725-dwvx.html
Mary-Anne Toy
July 26, 2009
CHINESE hackers have attacked the Melbourne International Film Festival website in an intensifying campaign against the screening of a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.
The sabotage comes as festival organisers confirmed federal and state police had been called in, private security guards were being hired to protect film-goers and festival staff, four Chinese-language films had been withdrawn and a long-term Hong Kong-based sponsor had pulled out of the event.
The hackers broke into the festival's website early yesterday, just hours after Premier John Brumby officially opened the 2009 festival at the Arts Centre.
The hackers replaced festival information with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans and were last night continuing to disrupt the site by spamming.
"We like film but we hate Rebiya Kadeer," one message says and calls for an apology to the Chinese people.
Festival director Richard Moore said staff had been bombarded with abusive emails since it was disclosed that the festival had rejected Chinese Government demands to withdraw the film about Ms Kadeer, The 10 Conditions of Love, and cancel her invitation to the festival.
"The language has been vile," Mr Moore said. "It is obviously a concerted campaign to get us because we've refused to comply with the Chinese Government's demands."
He said the festival had reported the attacks, which appear to be coming from a Chinese IP address, and was discussing security concerns with Victoria Police. He said private security guards would be hired to protect Ms Kadeer and patrons at the film's screening on August 8.
Victorian police are monitoring developments and federal police will probe the hacking claims. The State Government last night backed festival organisers.
Last week, three Chinese directors withdrew films, with two denying they were forced to do so by Chinese authorities. Director Tang Xiaobai, who withdrew her film Perfect Life after being phoned by the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, said it was her decision to boycott the festival.
"I do not want to see my film screened on the same platform as a film about Kadeer," Tang told the official English-language newspaper China Daily.
Mr Moore said he had finalised a replacement film for Perfect Life on Wednesday to fulfil the festival's contract with long-time sponsor the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office.
"We paid the screening fee and the new film, Claustrophobia, was en route to Melbourne, then this morning I get an email saying they've withdrawn it, no explanation," Mr Moore said. The festival will now lose the Hong Kong body's sponsorship as it is unable to fulfil its contractual obligation to provide a Hong Kong film for it to present on the scheduled date.
The Kadeer film, made by Melbourne director Jeff Daniels and partly financed by Film Victoria and Screen Australia, is about the impact on Kadeer's family of her campaign for greater autonomy and improved rights for China's estimated 10 million Uighurs.
Beijing accuses Ms Kadeer of masterminding the riots on July 5 in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, in which almost 200 people died. She denies the claim.
Bruce Jacobs, professor of Asian languages and studies at Monash University, said Beijing was clearly behind the campaign against the film festival and was villifying Ms Kadeer in the same way it targeted the Dalai Lama. "It's bullying. It's clearly the (Chinese) Government because they've made that clear when the consulate rang the festival. I think they need to be faced down. You don't give in to bullies," he said.
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