Hamza Yusafhas asked India to release Sikh blogger

RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Scotland’s first minister renewed campaign to releases Sikh blogger imprisoned in India.

As Glasgow Live reported Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yusafhas written to the Prime Minister urging him to ask the Indian government to release Jagtar Singh Johal, a Sikh blogger from Dumbarton, who has been in jail there for more than five years.

He was arrested in 2017 while in Punjab for his wedding, and faces the death penalty over his campaigning for Sikh human rights.

The letter says Mr Johal is wrongly detained and points out that the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that his detention breached international human rights law.

The report quotes the Foreign Office saying it has raised concerns, including allegations of torture, with the Indian government on more than 100 occasions and will continue to do so.