Vic: Kadeer film screening a victory for freedom of expression

AAP General News (Australia)
08-09-2009
Vic: Kadeer film screening a victory for freedom of expression

The director of a controversial documentary about exiled Uighur leader REBIYA KADEER
says his film is a victory for freedom of expression.

Hundreds packed the Melbourne Town Hall yesterday for the world premiere of .. 10 Conditions
of Love .. as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Director JEFF DANIELS says the documentary took him seven years to make .. and he thanked
Festival executive director RICHARD MOORE .. for standing up to pressure from the Chinese
government.

It's also been revealed City of Melbourne Lord Mayor ROBERT DOYLE resisted intense
pressure to stop the film being shown.

Before the screening .. Chinese students clashed with East Turkistan supporters of
Ms KADEER at the red carpet reception at Melbourne Town Hall .. and Ms KADEER had to be
let in through a back entrance.

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