A group of 16 MPs have written to the Prime Minister asking him to have Jagtar Singh Johal released from prison.
Scottish Labour MPs have urged Keir Starmer to prioritise the release of a Dumbarton man who faces the death penalty in India, on the seventh anniversary of his arrest. A group of 16 MPs have written to the Prime Minister asking him to have Jagtar Singh Johal, 37, released from prison.
The letter says the failure by previous Conservative governments to get him released is a “breach of the foremost duty of any Government to protect its citizens at home and abroad”. In 2022, a United Nations panel acknowledged Johal had been arbitrarily detained in India. He faces nine charges in India, eight of which are in the federal court. It took prosecutors nearly five years to charge him.
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