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‘It just keeps getting worse’: Disney epic Mulan under fire over human rights – Sydney Morning Herald
The film has been criticised for working on the $274 million action epic with the Chinese security bureau responsible for detaining Uighurs.
The Publicity Department of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Committee is tasked with refuting claims from human rights groups that the Chinese government’s actions amount to a cultural genocide.
Both authorities are credited in the film, which is based on a 6th century Chinese folk-tale of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to fight with the Chinese emperor’s forces against northern nomadic tribes.
“It just keeps getting worse,” said Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong…
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