{"id":53026,"date":"2023-03-01T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/mar\/01\/foreign-office-uk-sikh-activist-india-keir-starmer-jagtar-singh-johal"},"modified":"2023-03-01T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:07:12","slug":"foreign-office-scaling-back-support-for-uk-sikh-activist-held-in-india-keir-starmer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53026","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Office scaling back support for UK Sikh activist held in India, Keir Starmer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunak\u2019s government has refused to echo assertion that Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily detained<\/p>\n<p>Rishi Sunak and the Foreign Office appear to be scaling back the UK\u2019s support for Jagtar Singh Johal, the British Sikh activist held in an Indian jail for five years, his family and Keir Starmer have said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunak\u2019s government has refused invitations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/30\/boris-johnson-says-india-arbitrarily-detaining-british-sikh-activist-jagtar-singh-johal\">echo Boris Johnson\u2019s assertion<\/a> that the Indian government has arbitrarily detained Johal, a term seen as significant because it means the UK does not recognise there is a proper legal basis to hold him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/mar\/01\/foreign-office-uk-sikh-activist-india-keir-starmer-jagtar-singh-johal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunak\u2019s government has refused to echo assertion that Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily detainedRishi Sunak and the Foreign Office appear to be scaling back the UK\u2019s support for Jagtar Singh Johal, the British Sikh activist held in an Indian jail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"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":[531,62,1622,1158,1282,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-india","category-keir-starmer","category-rishi-sunak","category-sikhism","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\/53026","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\/1457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53027,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53026\/revisions\/53027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}