European Film Academy, Dutch Festivals Call for Release of Chinese Filmmaker

The European Film Academy, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and the International Film Festival Rotterdam have called for the immediate release of Chinese filmmaker Deng Chuanbin .

Huang, an independent documentary filmmaker living in the Sichuan Province, was arrested by Chinese authorities on May 17 after he tweeted a Chinese political meme, which referenced the Tiananmen Square massacre. The tweet contained an image of a liquor bottle labelled "ba jiu," a near homophone of "89," a reference to the date of the massacre on June 4, 1989.

"We strongly condemn the arrest of fellow filmmaker Huang Huang, for allegedly tweeting a photo which the authorities found controversial," said European Film Academy chairman Mike Downey. "His detention is a flagrant betrayal of his human rights and his basic freedom of expression. This crackdown on artists like Huang is in no way acceptable and we call on the relevant authorities to release him immediately.

Huang, a well-known activist, often focuses on human rights abuses in China in his films. His arrest last year is only the latest intimidation from Chinese authorities. For example, in 2015, he was prevented from traveling to Geneva to attend a human rights seminar. The European Film Academy campaigned successfully for the release of Oleg Sentsov, the Ukraine filmmaker who was arrested by Russian authorities and imprisoned in 2014 on charges of "plotting attacks against Russian targets." After an international campaign for his release, spearheaded by the EFA, Sentsov was finally released last year.

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