[00:00.769]Chinese computer hackers have attacked the website of Australia's biggest film festival
[00:05.803]in protest of plans to screen a documentary about
[00:07.536]the exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.
[00:10.569]The director of the festival, Richard Moore,
[00:12.479]told the BBC hundreds of attempts to hack into the site
[00:16.125]have started after he received a call from a Chinese consular official
[00:19.773]who was strongly urge him to remove the documentary.
[00:23.189]Roger Walker reports.
[00:25.436]Information on the site was replaced with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans
[00:30.046]hours after the festival's official opening.
[00:33.057]It is the latest manifestation of Chinese anger
[00:35.401]with the organizers who reject to denounce to drop the film and to cancel
[00:39.454]their impartation to Miss Kadeer to attend the screening.
[00:43.678]Beijing has now withdrawn five films from the festival.
[00:47.952]Its director Richard Moore told BBC
[00:50.792]that his staff had been bombarded with the abusive emails.
[00:54.728]He describes them while and privacy security guard
[00:57.700]has been hired to protect them and filmgoers.