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“I receive death threats on a daily basis": Chinese artist's exhibition in Poland will be attended by Western officials to prevent censorship by Beijing (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On 9 June, executives at Ujazdowski Castle, a museum in Warsaw, expressed their “concern and astonishment” after the Chinese ambassador entered the museum and demanded the exhibition by Chinese artist Badiucao to be closed down. On 12 June, Yao Dongye visited the museum a second time to repeat his demand. Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao uses art to explore censorship and human rights abuses in China, including the manipulation of historical memory about the Tiananmen massacre, the forced cultural assimilation of Uyghurs, pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and China’s position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

CCP has it's hands everywhere, unfortunately. There are even "Chinese police stations" in western countries. Saw a documentary in the German language recently about a chinese citizen in Germany recieving death threats by such police on a regular basis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For anyone else who was curious about it, you can find the documentary on their youtube channel and it has working English subtitles!

Edit: actually scratch that, Piped has subtitles too, just click on the three dots and you'll find the English Captions option there too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already linked the documentary in my comment. I linked it with Piped, a privacy respecting YouTube frontend that also supports subtitles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

OOhh, I didn't notice! The are English CCs/subtitles on Piped!
My bad, didn't see the options, that's why I looked for another source in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is a lot of information by the Index of Censorship on the Chinese Communist Party's subversion of freedom in Europe if interested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

These CCP clowns still don’t understand freedom of expression and never will.

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