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Beijing has now withdrawn five films from the festival.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