{"id":58904,"date":"2023-10-02T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/family-of-sikh-activist-calls-for-inquest-into-midlands-hospital-death"},"modified":"2023-10-02T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:00:09","slug":"family-of-sikh-activist-calls-for-inquest-into-midlands-hospital-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58904","title":{"rendered":"Family of Sikh activist calls for inquest into Midlands hospital death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions raised about sudden death in Birmingham after Canada links India to murder in British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>The family of Avtar Singh Khanda, the 35-year-old Sikh activist who died in a Birmingham hospital after a short illness this summer, is seeking a formal inquest into his death from the chief coroner for England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The request by the family, in conjunction with the Sikh Federation UK, comes on the heels of a claim by Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/credible-evidence-india-behind-killing-of-canadian-sikh-leader-says-trudeau\"> that India was linked to the murder<\/a> of another Sikh activist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/family-of-sikh-activist-calls-for-inquest-into-midlands-hospital-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions raised about sudden death in Birmingham after Canada links India to murder in British ColumbiaThe family of Avtar Singh Khanda, the 35-year-old Sikh activist who died in a Birmingham hospital after a short illness this summer, is seeking a fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3987,"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":[2996,1805,346,841,62,1282,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-england","category-health","category-hospitals","category-india","category-sikhism","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58904","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\/3987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58905,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58904\/revisions\/58905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}