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\"12203042109529681256616\"<\/a>From Xinhua News Agency:<\/a><\/p>\n

Three Chinese films have been withdrawn from this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival in protest of the inclusion of a documentary about Rebiya Kadeer — the leader of the World Uygur Congress.<\/p>\n

The films — “Perfect Life,” “Petition” and “Cry Me a River,” — had been expected to be screened in the mid-August festival, according to the Age newspaper in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

But in a letter to the festival, Jia Zhangke, producer of the film “Perfect Life” and whose company also produced “Cry Me a River,” said he decided to withdraw both movies to protest Kadeer’s attendance at the event.<\/p>\n

“Petition,” a film directed by Zhao Liang, has also been withdrawn from the festival.<\/p>\n

Jia said most of the families of those killed in the deadly July 5 riot in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, believe Kadeer’s World Uygur Congress was behind the violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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