{"id":757785,"date":"2022-07-24T01:04:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jul\/23\/australian-activist-drew-pavlou-arrested-in-london-but-denies-sending-chinese-embassy-bomb-threat"},"modified":"2022-07-24T01:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:04:33","slug":"australian-activist-drew-pavlou-arrested-in-london-but-denies-sending-chinese-embassy-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/24\/australian-activist-drew-pavlou-arrested-in-london-but-denies-sending-chinese-embassy-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian activist Drew Pavlou arrested in London but denies sending Chinese embassy bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pavlou says the emailed threat was intended to frame him after he staged a peaceful protest carrying a Uyghur flag outside the embassy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australian activist Drew Pavlou has been arrested in the UK over a false \u201cbomb threat\u201d delivered to the Chinese embassy in London that he claims came from a fake email address designed to frame him.<\/p>\n<p>Pavlou said the \u201cabsurd\u201d email claimed he would blow up the embassy over Beijing\u2019s oppression of its Uyghur Muslim minority, but that it was confected by the embassy in order to have him arrested.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jul\/23\/australian-activist-drew-pavlou-arrested-in-london-but-denies-sending-chinese-embassy-bomb-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavlou says the emailed threat was intended to frame him after he staged a peaceful protest carrying a Uyghur flag outside the embassyGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastAustralian activist Drew Pavlou has been arrested &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,190,6,1287,1156,1314,1,1641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757819,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757785\/revisions\/757819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}