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

Activist Drew Pavlou has denied emailing a bomb threat from a Proton email account to the Chinese embassy in London. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

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.