[Cherie]

It’s not a movie I would rush to watch anyway


Disney released its live-action remake of Mulan on its streaming platform Disney+ last Friday, Disney filmed Mulan in China's Xinjiang Province, where an estimated one million Uighurs are being held in concentration camps.

When the film was released on Friday, viewers noticed its credits thanked eight government organizations in China's Xinjiang Province, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Chinese government has detained what the New York Times reports as "millions or more of largely Muslim minority groups in indoctrination camps" inside the province. One of those groups is the Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people whose majority live in Xinjiang. China says defines these camps as "re-education camps" that exist "to improve security," according to the BCC, but reports of human rights abuses inside the camps include forced labor, forced sterilization and abortions, and indoctrination.but in the last year, the film has weathered a string of controversies relating to Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and China's imprisonment of the Uighur people in concentration camps in the Xinjiang Province.

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