Mulan movie boycott calls grow over scenes filmed in Xinjiang

People buy tickets for Disney’s Mulan film at a cinema inside a shopping mall in Bangkok on Sep 8, 2020. BEIJING: Disney's Mulan remake is facing fresh boycott calls after it emerged some of the blockbuster's scenes were filmed in China's Xinjiang, where widespread rights abuses against the region's Muslim population have been widely documented.

Badiucao, a dissident Chinese artist living in Melbourne, said he was currently working on a new cartoon portraying Mulan as a guard at one of the internment camps in Xinjiang to satirise Disney's new film. Instead, Disney rocked the industry - and its own cast - by announcing the film would in streamed into living rooms in many markets, including the United States, which it started Friday.In August, the anti-censorship group Pen America published a report which said screenwriters, producers and directors often change scripts, delete scenes and alter content to avoid offending Chinese censors.

After sectarian unrest and attacks by Uighur militants, Beijing blanketed the region in a draconian security crackdown, building dozens of huge internment camps.

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