Mykhailo Polyakov faces up to five years in prison for trying to contact indigenous tribe on North Sentinel Island ...

The purpose of this is to protect the tribe from the outside world as the Sentinelese people do not have the immunity to deal with modern diseases. Contact with people from other places could quite ...

A 24-year-old US national, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was denied bail by a Port Blair court after being charged with entering a prohibited tribal reserve area in the North Sentinel Island. Despite ...

Indian police arrested American Youtuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov for leaving a can at an off-limits island in the ...

North Sentinel Island is home to a hostile, isolated tribe called the Sentinelese, and traveling there is banned.

A 24-year-old man arrested in India, accused of visiting a forbidden island, was a University of Arizona graduate.

A charity has warned that social media influencers pose a "new threat" to isolated tribes, and attempting to contact them is a human rights abuse. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a 24-year-old US ...

US Citizen and social media influencer, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, allegedly landed on North Sentinel Island in an ...

Influencers are a "new threat" to isolated tribes, and attempts to contact them are human rights abuse, according to a ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Ariz., was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted ...