{"id":59642,"date":"2023-11-05T18:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T09:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/05\/senior-lawyers-criticise-handling-of-case-of-sikh-activist-jaghtar-singh-johal-held-in-india"},"modified":"2023-11-05T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T09:27:03","slug":"senior-lawyers-criticise-handling-of-case-of-sikh-activist-held-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59642","title":{"rendered":"Senior lawyers criticise handling of case of Sikh activist held in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peers express fears Jaghtar Singh Johal will not receive \u2018due process\u2019 in India amid torture claims<\/p>\n<p>Assurances by a UK minister that a British man imprisoned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a> will receive a fair trial fly in the face of evidence that he has been tortured and arbitrarily detained, three lawyers who held senior public roles have warned.<\/p>\n<p>To coincide with the sixth anniversary of Jaghtar Singh Johal\u2019s detention, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/ken-macdonald-qc\">Sir Ken MacDonald KC<\/a>, Elish Angiolini KC and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/jim-wallace\">Jim Wallace KC<\/a> have written to the UK Foreign Office minister, Lord Ahmad, asking him to retract his recent comments saying that the British citizen will receive \u201cdue process\u201d in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/05\/senior-lawyers-criticise-handling-of-case-of-sikh-activist-jaghtar-singh-johal-held-in-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peers express fears Jaghtar Singh Johal will not receive \u2018due process\u2019 in India amid torture claimsAssurances by a UK minister that a British man imprisoned in India will receive a fair trial fly in the face of evidence that he has been tortured and ar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2960,"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":[319,62,86,561,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-india","category-law","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\/59642","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\/2960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59652,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59642\/revisions\/59652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}