Pussy Riot’s Pyotr Verzilov has been arrested in the city of Kapoeta in South Sudan, along with blogger Ilya Varlamov, his wife Lyubov, and lecturer Ivan Bogantsev. The four Russians are in Africa on tourist visas.
According to Varlamov, a Russian household name with over 2 million YouTube subscribers, security searched their luggage at the regional airport, and found the control device for an airborne drone. Despite not locating the actual aircraft itself, the officers then accused the tourists of illegally flying it. Varlamov claims it had already been confiscated when they were in Uganda.
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