MPs urge David Lammy to intervene as British man remains in jail in Indian prison | Foreign Policy

Hopefully, Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh man who has been held in Indian prison for seven years, will be released on Thursday when his case may have been postponed by India's Supreme Court until after the summer prompted British MPs to call for the British to call for a convening.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy will meet with Johal's brother again next week.

After at least March, Johal will finally be released, and in a case in Punjab, he was cleared of all charges, which is exactly the same as the federal court has filed against him.

He has not been convicted since his arrest in November 2017.

Johal, from Dunbarton, Scotland, was accused of being a member of the terrorist group, the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), which carried out an attack in Punjab, India.

The allegations against him include his trip to Paris in 2013 to donate £3,000 to other KLF figures, the money for the purchase of weapons was used in a series of murders and in 2016 and 2017 attacks against Hindu nationalists and other religious leaders. He denied the allegation.

Johal claimed he was forced to confess at the beginning of the detention after police tortured him with electricity and brought gasoline into his cell and threatened to bring him alive.

The United Nations Labor Party claims he was arbitrarily detained.

A new letter to Rami, signed by 117 cross-party MPs and peers, calls for urgent British diplomatic pressure.

It said there is a "window of opportunity" that ensures Johar's release after his acquittal in March. The letter stated: “The judgment of evidence and the judgment that ensures release is crucial because it is evidence present in other outstanding federal court cases.”

The campaign panel that has been supporting the call for release, he said the bail was extended because his case has been taken into account more broadly in the case based on illegal activities prevention activities, a case that the legal human rights defense lawyer has been abused to shut down civil liberties in India.

Slurif said that after the double-danger principle of his acquittal (a risk recognized in Indian and international law), Johar continued to detain the same charges in another court.

Indian authorities did not claim that Johar was directly involved in any attack. All cases are based on the same plea.

Johal’s brother, Gurpreet Singh Johal, a labor MP in West Dunbarton County, said: “I’m glad the Foreign Secretary met me again because it shows that he recognizes that it’s Jagtar’s change.

“The case against my brother has been reviewed and rejected in court, but if the British government does not take action to ensure his release, the Indian authorities will put him in jail for decades.

"We've seen, today in the Supreme Court - just the latest news in a series of endless delays. Is this a moment of truth for David Lammy: Will he deliver on his promise or fail like six diplomatic secretaries in the last six?"

Dan Dolan, the dependy executive director of Reprieve, said: “This is a politically motivated prosecution of a young British human rights defender, and the process is the punishment. Jagtar has been found not guilty once, after prosecutors failed to present any credible evidence against him in seven years. For him to remain imprisoned for decades, as duplicate trials drag on in definition of the principle of double jeopardy, What would be an obscene is that the government takes strong statements among the opposition and does its best to bring Jagthal home.”