{"id":59047,"date":"2023-10-08T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/sikh-activists-hardeep-singh-nijjar-killing"},"modified":"2023-10-08T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T08:00:36","slug":"police-said-im-in-danger-sikh-activists-on-edge-worldwide-after-vancouver-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59047","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Police said I\u2019m in danger\u2019: Sikh activists on edge worldwide after Vancouver killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of Hardeep Singh Nijjar\u2019s murder, activists say India is emboldened to crush dissent far outside its borders<\/p>\n<p>Two months after the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/20\/advocate-separate-sikh-state-india-shot-dead-canada-hardeep-singh-nijjar-temple\">shot and killed in a parking lot<\/a> in suburban Vancouver, Canadian police showed up at the house of a close friend with warning: his life was also in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Two officers \u2013 one of them from the federal national security team \u2013 handed Gurmeet Singh Toor a document known as a \u201cduty to warn\u201d paper. It required him to confirm that they had told him <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/journo_vinay\/status\/1707310119065952382\">his life \u201cmight be in peril\u201d<\/a> \u2013 and to acknowledge that any attempt on his life might put his family at risk.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/sikh-activists-hardeep-singh-nijjar-killing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In wake of Hardeep Singh Nijjar\u2019s murder, activists say India is emboldened to crush dissent far outside its bordersTwo months after the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed in a parking lot in suburban Vancouver, Canadian police show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[246,244,62,1282,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-sikhism","category-uk-news","category-us-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\/59047","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59047\/revisions\/59092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}