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Beijing has now withdrawn five films from the festival.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