AN MP fighting for the release of Scot Jagtar Singh Johal from an Indian prison has demanded answers from the Foreign Office after the Canadian…
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly was asked about Indian interference in Canada earlier this year
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed in June in front of the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia.in Canada that, in recent weeks, national security authorities had been probing allegations that New Delhi was behind a state-sponsored assassination of Nijjar.Docherty-Hughes also expressed his concern about the case given his constituent Jagtar Singh Johal – a campaigner for Sikh human rights - has been held in an Indian jail since 2017 and is facing the death penalty.
"The Foreign Secretary’s non-answer to my question has matched the UK’s Government’s general attitude towards any criticism of India: they are desperate not to acknowledge that there are widespread concerns among our allies not only that India is being increasingly assertive in the affairs of other states; its continuing funding of the Russian war machine in Ukraine, and about the decline of that country’s democracy.
"I’ll be tabling questions to the Foreign Office today, though won’t be holding my breath for any substantive answers.”Johal’s brother Gurpreet added the news from Canada is “extremely concerning” and a sign of a “pattern” of people being targeted for human rights activism in India. “We've seen a pattern of this, in India and abroad, so the news from Canada is extremely concerning."urging Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to call on Narendra Modi – the Indian PM – to immediately release Johal.
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