Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou is facing a court hearing over his protest against Chinese leader Xi Jinping last year.
Pavlou, a vocal critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), was arrested by New South Wales (NSW) police at an anti-CCP rally in Eastwood, a Chinese community in northwest Sydney, in May 2022 and was detained for five hours in a cell.
Holding a sign that read “F**k Xi Jinping” in Mandarin at a busy shopping street in Eastwood, which boasts the state’s highest Chinese population, the former senate candidate sparked a strong reaction from Chinese nationals who cursed him as “motherf**ker” and “son of a b**ch.”…