{"id":35708,"date":"2021-08-22T22:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/22\/sturgeon-urges-raab-to-assist-scottish-sikh-man-allegedly-tortured-in-india"},"modified":"2021-08-22T22:52:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T13:52:48","slug":"sturgeon-urges-raab-to-assist-scottish-sikh-man-allegedly-tortured-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35708","title":{"rendered":"Sturgeon urges Raab to assist Scottish Sikh man allegedly tortured in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

First minister raises \u2018deep concerns\u2019 about case of Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been imprisoned for four years awaiting trial<\/p>\n

Nicola Sturgeon has written to the embattled foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, urging him to intervene in the case of a Scottish Sikh man who has been imprisoned in India for nearly four years awaiting trial, and is facing the death penalty after a confession allegedly extracted under torture.<\/p>\n

In Sturgeon\u2019s first formal intervention on the case, seen exclusively by the Guardian, the first minister expresses the Scottish government\u2019s \u201cdeep concerns\u201d about Jagtar Singh Johal\u2019s detention without trial \u2013 as well as his allegations of torture and mistreatment by Indian authorities while in custody.<\/p>\n

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First minister raises \u2018deep concerns\u2019 about case of Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been imprisoned for four years awaiting trialNicola Sturgeon has written to the embattled foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, urging him to intervene in the case of a Scottish…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[950,319,53,62,4,561,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-human-rights","category-india","category-politics","category-scotland","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35709,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions\/35709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}