{"id":60934,"date":"2024-01-04T01:17:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/conservative-mp-writes-to-home-secretary-over-sikh-activists-sudden-death"},"modified":"2024-01-04T01:17:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T16:17:53","slug":"conservative-mp-writes-to-home-secretary-over-sikh-activists-sudden-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60934","title":{"rendered":"Conservative MP writes to home secretary over Sikh activist\u2019s sudden death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avtar Singh Khanda\u2019s death coincided with alleged Indian plots to kill Sikh activists in North America<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2024\/jan\/03\/junior-doctors-strikes-nhs-pay-bma-rishi-sunak-uk-politics-live\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A senior Conservative MP has written to the home secretary expressing his concern over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/family-of-sikh-activist-calls-for-inquest-into-midlands-hospital-death\">sudden death<\/a> of a Sikh activist in Birmingham last year.<\/p>\n<p>Neil O\u2019Brien, the MP for Harborough and a former minister, has written to James Cleverly questioning the death of Avtar Singh Khanda in June, which coincided with alleged Indian plots to kill Sikh activists in North America.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/conservative-mp-writes-to-home-secretary-over-sikh-activists-sudden-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avtar Singh Khanda\u2019s death coincided with alleged Indian plots to kill Sikh activists in North AmericaUK politics live \u2013 latest updatesA senior Conservative MP has written to the home secretary expressing his concern over the sudden death of a Sikh act&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3574,"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":[2996,62,371,1282,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-india","category-religion","category-sikhism","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\/60934","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\/3574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60935,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60934\/revisions\/60935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}