Chinese hack film festival site

[Heidi]

Source: BBC

Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Australia's biggest film festival over a documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.

Content on the Melbourne International Film Festival site was briefly replaced with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans on Saturday, reports said.

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Chinese authorities blame Kadeer, leader of the World Uighur Congress, for inciting ethnic unrest in Xinjiang - charges she denies.

Earlier this month, around 200 people died and 1,600 were injured during fighting in the region between the mostly Muslim Uighurs and settlers from China's Han majority.

Kadeer, 62, spent six years in a Chinese prison before she was released into exile in the US in 2005. In 2004, she won the Rafto Prize for human rights.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8169123.stm

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[DainBramaged]

1. Bet they never hacked WalMart's site.........

[Heidi]

2. I bet you're right.

Mornin', DB! :hi:

[DainBramaged]

3. And I thought only Coca Cola wanted to rule the world......

:hi: :hug:

[xchrom]

4. ...

:mad:

[thelordofhell]

5. Damn headline

I thought this article was going to be about a Ronald Reagan film festival in China.

[Regret My New Name]

6. Well that's useful...

Can't they at least do something amusing? Like, I dunno, turn it into an animal porn site? Yeah yeah, amusing is a relative term, I suppose.