{"id":45137,"date":"2022-06-03T20:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T11:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/keir-starmer-urges-boris-johnson-request-india-release-uk-citizen-jagtar-singh-johal"},"modified":"2022-06-03T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T11:23:50","slug":"starmer-urges-pm-to-request-india-release-uk-citizen-jagtar-singh-johal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45137","title":{"rendered":"Starmer urges PM to request India release UK citizen Jagtar Singh Johal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour leader writes to Boris Johnson after UN working group declared Johal\u2019s five-year detention arbitrary<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer has asked Boris Johnson to intervene and request that the Indian government release a British citizen after a UN working group declared his five-year detention arbitrary and without any legal basis.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter, the Labour leader asks why Johnson has not acted to ask for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/uk-urged-to-act-after-un-panel-rules-detention-of-briton-in-india-arbitrary\">release of Jagtar Singh Johal<\/a> given the findings of the UN report on arbitrary detention last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/keir-starmer-urges-boris-johnson-request-india-release-uk-citizen-jagtar-singh-johal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour leader writes to Boris Johnson after UN working group declared Johal\u2019s five-year detention arbitraryKeir Starmer has asked Boris Johnson to intervene and request that the Indian government release a British citizen after a UN working group decla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[531,319,62,1622,4,61,52,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-foreign-policy","category-india","category-keir-starmer","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","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\/45137","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137\/revisions\/45138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}