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David Lammy urged to use India trip to call for release of Jagtar Singh Johal

A leading UK Sikh action group has called on the Foreign Secretary to use his first trip to India next week to push for the release of detained British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal. Mr Johal, from Dumbarton, Scotland, was in Punjab in northern India ...

18 Jul 2024 at 06:39

Football

Morecambe quiet on reports drinks entrepreneur Sarbjot Johal, 20, could buy club

Morecambe have declined to comment on reports that the sale of the club to 20-year-old entrepreneur Sarbjot Johal is imminent. The Daily Mail claimed on Wednesday that the struggling Shrimps, who are currently owned by businessmen Colin Goldring ...

04 Jan 2023 at 16:04

Swinney calls for release of Sikh activist jailed in India for seven years

Scotland’s First Minister has called for the release of a blogger imprisoned in India for almost seven years. Jagtar Singh Johal, a Sikh activist from Dumbarton, was in Punjab, northern India, for his wedding in 2017 when his family said he was ...

11 Sept 2024 at 17:15

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 has been ...

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 Singh Johal ...

07 Jun 2023 at 00:26

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 ...

23 Aug 2022 at 11:09

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 ...

11 Sept 2023 at 18:11

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 ...

06 Sept 2023 at 13:38

Football

Daniel Ogwuru leaves it late to give Morecambe emotionally-charged victory

Daniel Ogwuru struck in the eighth-minute of stoppage time to fire Morecambe to a 2-1 victory over Altrincham on an emotionally-charged first match in charge for new owners Panjab Warriors. Morecambe fans feared for the ...

23 Aug 2025 at 14:55

Scotland

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 ...

09 May 2022 at 10:55

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 ...

10 Sept 2023 at 06:42

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 ...

08 Sept 2023 at 10:00

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