A Bulgarian writer claims helium has been "banned" from attending Sunday's Bafta Film Awards ceremonial successful London due to the fact that helium is simply a "security risk".
Christo Grozev, who features successful a Bafta-nominated movie astir the poisoning of Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny, said helium was "surprised" that helium and his household had been banned.
"Moments similar this amusement the increasing dangers to autarkic journalists astir the world," Mr Grozev tweeted.
Bafta said information was its apical priority.
However not everyone associated with the film, Navalny, person been excluded from the ceremonial - Bafta confirmed to PA quality bureau that respective producers volition beryllium there.
Mr Grozev is the pb Russia researcher for Bellingcat, an investigative journalism group, and is credited with helping to exposure the alleged crippled to termination Kremlin professional Alexei Navalny with the nervus cause Novichok.
In the film, Mr Grozev is shown uncovering details that suggest engagement successful the poisoning crippled by the Kremlin. Russia denies immoderate engagement successful the attack, which reportedly progressive lacing Mr Navalny's underwear with poison.
On Twitter, Mr Grozev wrote that helium had been "banned by British police" from attending the awards ceremonial - nevertheless the Metropolitan Police said they person nary powerfulness to bash this, and it would beryllium up to the lawsuit organisers. However it does springiness proposal to lawsuit organisers connected information matters.
Mr Grozev said helium lone recovered retired that helium and his lad and been disinvited erstwhile helium received a connection by idiosyncratic from CNN a fewer days ago. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that they had tickets to the event, but the invitation was withdrawn based connected proposal from UK police.
The prohibition was down to "concerns astir nationalist information and security," helium was told, but was fixed nary much accusation connected what those risks were.
Mr Grozev added, however, that successful caller weeks helium has received "numerous alerts from antithetic instrumentality enforcement agencies astir Europe that determination is credible grounds that my beingness is successful danger".
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that threats by overseas states to journalists successful the UK are "a world that we are perfectly acrophobic with".
It added that it recognised its proposal connected information measures could mean "organisers person hard choices to marque erstwhile deciding however champion to mitigate immoderate risks to the information of their event".
Bafta said successful comments cited by PA quality bureau that the information of its guests and unit was a priority, adding that it had "robust and due information arrangements successful spot each year."