A court in Brisbane, Australia, upheld a fine of upwards of 3,000 Australian dollars (nearly $2,000) on Tuesday against anti-Chinese regime activist Drew Pavlou on the grounds that holding a sign protesting the Tiananmen Square Massacre near a shopping mall amounted to “advertising … without permission.”
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday asked Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong to intervene on behalf of human rights activist Drew Pavlou, a 23-year-old Australian national arrested in London for allegedly emailing a bomb threat to the Chinese Embassy.
An attorney for Australian activist Drew Pavlou, who has spent years advocating against Chinese Communist Party atrocities, accused the “Chinese state” in an interview on Monday of framing his client with a fake bomb threat email to London’s Chinese embassy.
Drew Pavlou claimed he was “framed” after being arrested in London over a “fake” bomb threat email provided to police by the Chinese Embassy.
The All England Club, which runs the prestigious Wimbledon tennis tournament, claimed that an anti-communist protester removed from the men’s singles final on Sunday was “running down the stairs and causing a nuisance” at the event, contradicting the protester’s account that security officers shoved him down the stairs.
A well-known human rights activist protesting to bring awareness to the issue of missing Chinese tennis superstar Peng Shuai, was reportedly thrown down the steps of Wimbledon Sunday after shouting “Where is Peng Shuai?”
