Drew Pavlou says he was kept in custody overnight by British police and held incommunicado over allegations he had emailed a bomb threat to the Chinese embassy before a protest in London.
An Australian activist has been arrested and detained in London just 20 minutes into a protest outside the Chinese embassy after authorities alleged he had emailed a bomb threat.The 23-year-old has been an outspoken critic of China's human rights record and was protesting outside its London embassy
He had intended to glue the flags to the gates outside of the embassy, a similar tactic that groups like Extinction Rebellion have adopted in recent years. "There's very clearly someone who's just impersonating me, sending out these terrible emails, and I've spent 23 hours in a cell because of it," he said.
Mr Pavlou told the ABC that officers informed him that the Chinese embassy had made a report against him, citing an email they received with his name "all over it" which threatened a bomb attack.Allegedly denied consular access
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