{"id":60321,"date":"2023-12-04T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/04\/indian-police-accused-of-harassing-sikh-activist-in-uk-before-his-sudden-death"},"modified":"2023-12-04T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:00:33","slug":"indian-police-accused-of-harassing-sikh-activist-in-uk-before-his-sudden-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60321","title":{"rendered":"Indian police accused of harassing Sikh activist in UK before his sudden death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Avtar Khanda question UK authorities\u2019 account that his death was reviewed by police and that there was no foul play<\/p>\n<p>A Sikh activist in Birmingham complained that Indian police were verbally harassing him by phone and threatening his family in Punjab months before his sudden death in June, a Guardian investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Avtar Singh Khanda, which family and friends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/family-of-sikh-activist-calls-for-inquest-into-midlands-hospital-death\">have said was suspicious<\/a>, coincided with a plot that was playing out across the Atlantic where, US prosecutors have alleged, an Indian government official with close ties to Indian intelligence was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/nov\/29\/india-assassination-attempt-american-citizen\">ordering the murder of high-profile Sikh activists<\/a> in Canada and the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/04\/indian-police-accused-of-harassing-sikh-activist-in-uk-before-his-sudden-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family of Avtar Khanda question UK authorities\u2019 account that his death was reviewed by police and that there was no foul playA Sikh activist in Birmingham complained that Indian police were verbally harassing him by phone and threatening his family in &#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":[2996,62,1282,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-india","category-sikhism","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-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\/60321","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=60321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321\/revisions\/60322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}