‘Police said I’m in danger’: Sikh activists on edge worldwide after Vancouver killing
In wake of Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s murder, activists say India is emboldened to crush dissent far outside its borders
Two months after the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed in a parking lot in suburban Vancouver, Canadian police showed up at the house of a close friend with warning: his life was also in danger.
Two officers – one of them from the federal national security team – handed Gurmeet Singh Toor a document known as a “duty to warn” paper. It required him to confirm that they had told him his life “might be in peril” – and to acknowledge that any attempt on his life might put his family at risk.