Federal police and parliament's speaker are refusing to say why a prominent anti-Beijing activist was ordered to leave a public section of the building.
abc.net.au/news/anti-beijing-activist-drew-pavlou-removed-from-parliament/101691276Federal police and parliament's speaker are refusing to say why a prominent anti-Beijing activist was ordered to leave a public section of the building or risk facing arrest.
In July the 23-year-old was also detained by British police for over twenty hours, which he claims occurred after"Because of the way I was targeted by Chinese authorities and how they've tried to smear me as this terrorist bomb-threat guy," Mr Pavlou told the ABC. At lunchtime he was approached by AFP officers as he dined in the building's public cafe ahead of another meeting scheduled for that evening with Labor MP Peter Khalil, the head of Parliament's powerful Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.Shortly after the incident Mr Khalil appeared on the ABC's Afternoon Briefing program and indicated it was being investigated by Parliament's Speaker and the President of the Senate.
In a statement the AFP confirmed it had "engaged" with a man at Parliament House who then "departed the building voluntarily" and said, "no further comment will be made on the matter".
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