Australian activist Drew Pavlou arrested in London but denies sending Chinese embassy bomb threat

Pavlou says the emailed threat was intended to frame him after he staged a peaceful protest carrying a Uyghur flag outside the embassy

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Australian activist Drew Pavlou has been arrested in the UK over a false bomb threat" delivered to the Chinese embassy in London that he claims came from a fake email address designed to frame him.

Pavlou said the absurd" email claimed he would blow up the embassy over Beijing's oppression of its Uyghur Muslim minority, but that it was confected by the embassy in order to have him arrested.