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Russian anti-war rock band Bi-2 members to be deported from Thailand?

Self-exiled Russian-Belarusian rock bank Bi-2 has been detained in Thailand since last week. Russian authorities are only pushing to worsen the matters for them as the members await freedom from their confinement at a detention center. Despite having plane tickets in their possession, the anti-war music act has been locked up with 80 other people in a cell. The Bi-2 members are face fearful consequences of possibly being deported back to Russia.

FILE – Aleksandr “Shura” Uman, left, and Yegor “Lyova” Bortnik perform during the Bi-2 rock band concert in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011. Members of a rock band that has been critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine remain locked up in a Thai immigration jail, fearful that they could be deported to Russia as a reported plan to let them fly to safety in Israel was apparently suspended. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)(AP)

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