Beauty queen thrown into hellhole immigration jail in Thailand over 'visa breaches'

Former kid quality queen Alexandra Tikhomirova is facing a stint successful Bangkok's 'squalid' and overcrowded IDC migration situation aft reportedly overstaying her visa

A exemplary is to acceptable to beryllium locked up successful an infamous Thai situation aft she allegedly overstayed her visa.

Former kid beauty queen Alexandra Tikhomirova, who was crowned Little Miss Russia successful 2013, is being held successful a compartment successful the fashionable holiday hotspot of Pattaya. The 23-year-old is presently being held successful harsh conditions without nutrient oregon h2o “alongside robbers and rapists”, according to Russian quality media, and is acceptable to beryllium transferred to the notorious IDC prison, an overcrowded detention centre successful Bangkok.

Ms Tikhomirova - who was a well-known kid exemplary successful Russia - is alleged to person overstayed her visa by 10 days. It is claimed she had been antecedently thrown retired of Thailand and deported to Russia aft moving into issues connected a erstwhile visit.

She past went to Dubai for respective months, earlier returning to Thailand. Despite her fame, the woman, from the municipality of Petrozavodsk successful northwest Russia, reportedly has nary wealth for a summons location aft a fall-out with her parents.

Russian quality outlets assertion they disapproved of her rumoured enactment arsenic an escort. But this has been denied by different members of the family, arsenic 1 relative, named Maria, told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper: “I americium successful large shock. Why did everyone presume that she is an escort? This is nonsense, it is impossible.

"She communicates with her parents, they person a bully family. There did the accusation travel from that they bash not attraction astir her?”

Alexandra Tikhomirova was besides progressive successful competitory athletics arsenic a youth, and took portion successful determination and nationalist gymnastics competitions. In 1 quality contention astatine the property of 12, she said: “The astir important happening successful beingness is self-development and self-knowledge. I would truly similar to animate different radical to large achievements.”

Conditions astatine the Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) person been described arsenic "squalid" by quality rights groups and erstwhile inmates. Children, women and the aged are among those held successful overcrowded cells, with immoderate locked distant for years until they are deported. Designed for astir 500 detainees, it is known to regularly clasp good implicit treble that figure.