{"id":70757,"date":"2025-04-04T02:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/03\/us-tourist-arrested-for-landing-on-forbidden-indian-tribal-island"},"modified":"2025-04-04T02:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:10:30","slug":"us-tourist-arrested-for-landing-on-forbidden-indian-tribal-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70757","title":{"rendered":"US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say man landed on island in attempt to meet the Sentinelese people \u2013 a tribe untouched by the industrial world<\/p>\n<p>Indian police said on Thursday they had arrested a US tourist who sneaked on to a highly restricted island carrying a coconut and a can of Diet Coke to a tribe untouched by the industrial world.<\/p>\n<p>Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel \u2013 part of India\u2019s Andaman Islands \u2013 in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/03\/us-tourist-arrested-for-landing-on-forbidden-indian-tribal-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say man landed on island in attempt to meet the Sentinelese people \u2013 a tribe untouched by the industrial worldIndian police said on Thursday they had arrested a US tourist who sneaked on to a highly restricted island carrying a coconut and a can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,503,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-indigenous-peoples","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70758,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70757\/revisions\/70758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}