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UN finds no legal basis for Scottish Sikh’s detention in India

A Scottish Sikh being held in India should be immediately released, a UN human rights group has said, after it found his continued imprisonment had no legal basis. Jagtar Singh Johal, of Dumbarton, was arrested on November 4 2017 after travelling to ...

09 May 2022 at 10:55

Scotland

Spy agencies accused of tip-off that led to Jagtar Singh Johal arrest

MI5 and MI6 have been accused of supplying information that led to the abduction and alleged torture of a Scottish Sikh. Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, was in Punjab in northern India for his wedding in 2017 when his family say he was arrested ...

23 Aug 2022 at 11:09

Sunak urged to lobby Indian PM over release of jailed British blogger

More than 70 MPs have urged the Prime Minister to use his trip to India to raise the case of a Scottish Sikh blogger who has been jailed in the country for almost six years. Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, was in Punjab in northern India for ...

06 Sept 2023 at 13:38

PM intervention over jailed British blogger ‘meaningless’ without details

Rishi Sunak raising the case of detained Briton Jagtar Singh Johal is “meaningless” if he did not call on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release the Sikh blogger immediately, campaigners say. The British Prime Minister confirmed he ...

10 Sept 2023 at 06:42

Rishi Sunak under fire from MPs over calls to release Jagtar Singh Johal

Rishi Sunak was accused of making MPs feel “very depressed” after he sidestepped pleas to publicly call for the release of Briton Jagtar Singh Johal. The Prime Minister was also urged to tell Mr Johal’s family what he is doing on their ...

11 Sept 2023 at 18:11

PM ‘wants to ensure justice is done’ in case of detained Briton in India

The Prime Minister said he wants to ensure “justice is done” in the case of detained Briton Jagtar Singh Johal, but refused to commit to lobbying the Indian premier about the case. Mr Johal, a Sikh blogger from Dumbarton in Scotland, ...

08 Sept 2023 at 10:00

Brother of British blogger detained in India hopes Cameron can secure release

The brother of a Briton who has been detained in an Indian jail for more than six years has said he is “hopeful” the new Foreign Secretary can secure the blogger’s release. Gurpreet Singh Johal said he hopes that Lord David Cameron, ...

20 Nov 2023 at 13:52

Lord Cameron wants to ‘do the right thing’ for Briton detained in India

Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has vowed to review the UK Government’s involvement in the case of a British man who has been held in an Indian prison for more than six years to “make sure we are doing the right thing”. On his first ...

12 Feb 2024 at 13:46

UK ‘not looking the other way’ over detention of campaigning Sikh blogger

Accusations the UK has chosen to “look the other way” over the detention and alleged torture of a Scottish Sikh blogger in India has been rejected by a Foreign Office minister. Speaking at Westminster, Tory frontbencher Lord Ahmad ...

08 Sept 2022 at 15:51

Humza Yousaf urges PM to act over case of blogger jailed in India

Scotland’s First Minister has written to the Prime Minister urging him to ask the Indian government to release a Scottish Sikh blogger who has been in jail there for more than five years. Humza Yousaf said that Jagtar Singh Johal ...

17 Jun 2023 at 11:01

Yousaf vows to keep lobbying India for release of jailed Scottish Sikh blogger

Scotland’s First Minister has vowed to keep lobbying for the release of a Scottish Sikh blogger who has been jailed in India for more than five years. Humza Yousaf made the pledge during a meeting with the brother of Jagtar ...

07 Jun 2023 at 00:26

Ratcliffe criticises Government for taking ‘long time’ over jailed Sikh blogger

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has criticised the Government for taking a “very long time” to resolve the case of a Scottish Sikh blogger who has been jailed in India for five years. Jagtar Singh Johal from ...

03 Nov 2022 at 17:16

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