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Several media outlets covered this meeting. The best piece was on BBC <\/a>News<\/a>. Our press release was also picked up by\u00a0the National<\/a>,\u00a0the Daily Record<\/a>, the\u00a0Press Association<\/a>, Politico’s\u00a0London Playbook<\/a> and the Daily <\/a>Express<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning, Gurpreet Singh Johal met the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, to ask how the UK Government plans to secure his brother Jagtar\u2019s release from arbitrary detention in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the eight years since Jagtar Singh Johal was abducted by police on his honeymoon and tortured until he signed a false confession, there have been eight Foreign Secretaries. The previous seven all \u201craised Jagtar\u2019s case\u201d with the Indian authorities but failed to make any meaningful progress towards bringing him home to his family in Scotland. Gurpreet has now met six Foreign Secretaries \u2013 and described today\u2019s meeting as one of the most disappointing meetings yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gurpreet Singh Johal said:<\/strong> \u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t know why I bothered taking the train down from Glasgow for this. I\u2019ve now met six Foreign Secretaries and this is one of the most disappointing meetings yet \u2013 it felt like a significant step back. The Prime Minister made a big deal of this meeting, so to show up and hear the same empty talk is devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reprieve\u2019s Deputy Chief Executive Dan Dolan said: <\/strong>\u201cIt is very clear by now that unless the UK Government takes stronger action, Jagtar will at best spend decades in prison, in a never-ending trial with no evidence, and at worst be sentenced to death and executed. Failing to resolve this case would project terrible weakness \u2013 signalling to allies and enemies alike that they can arbitrarily detain British citizens as a point of leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas McAllister MP said: <\/strong>\u201cThis is the eighth foreign Secretary since Jagtar was abducted and imprisoned and I want this to be the last Foreign Secretary we have to meet. I emphasised to Yvette Cooper that simply raising the case with her counterpart in India is not enough. We\u2019ve been in government for 17 months. There\u2019s a window of opportunity between now and next month, and what I now want to see is a greater sense of urgency. That means immediate action from the Foreign Secretary, in her new role, to bring my constituent home to Dumbarton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes for editors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jagtar was acquitted in the first case against him to reach a verdict, in March. The court found the prosecution had \u201cmiserably failed<\/a>\u201d to prove its case. The eight cases brought by India\u2019s National Investigation Agency (NIA) are all based on the same allegation and the same torture \u2018confession\u2019. This is a clear instance of double jeopardy \u2013 being tried twice for the same alleged acts \u2013 which is prohibited under India\u2019s constitution and in international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Keir Starmer is the fifth Prime Minister in the eight years Jagtar has been imprisoned. He reportedly<\/a> raised Jagtar\u2019s case with India\u2019s PM Narendra Modi when the two leaders met to sign a trade deal between their two countries in July, and then again<\/a> when they met at a tech conference in Mumbai in October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent releases of Alaa Abd el-Fattah<\/a> from prison in Egypt and Peter and Barbie Reynolds<\/a> from jail in Afghanistan show what can be achieved by diplomacy at the highest level, when there is political will to prioritise protecting British citizens arbitrarily detained overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The families of detained British nationals, including Alaa and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, recently wrote to the PM<\/a> asking him to prioritise seeking Jagtar\u2019s release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jagtar is a blogger from Dumbarton, in Scotland who drew attention to human rights abuses against the Sikh community in India. UN legal experts have determined that he was targeted for his human rights activism. He has now been arbitrarily detained on the basis of a torture confession for eight years, missing most of his thirties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jagtar was arrested on 4 November 2017, three weeks after his wedding. He and his wife were out shopping when he was abducted off the street. Jagtar was bound, hooded with a sack and bundled into a police car by officials in plain clothes. They did not have an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They cases against Jagtar are all based on the same allegation and the same torture confession. In 2016 and 2017 there were a series of attacks in Punjab. Each of these is now a case with multiple co-defendants. The Indian authorities don\u2019t claim Jagtar was involved in any of these attacks: they allege that he transferred money to fund them. That claim was rejected by the court in Punjab, after prosecutors had seven years to present credible evidence implicating Jagtar and failed to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, UN legal experts concluded<\/a> that the \u201ccontinued pre-trial detention of Mr. Johal lacks legal basis, and is arbitrary\u201d because he was abducted by plainclothes officers without an arrest warrant, denied consular assistance and interrogated without a lawyer and in incommunicado detention. They found that \u201cMr. Johal was deprived of his liberty on discriminatory grounds, owing to his status as a human rights defender and based on his political activism, religious faith and opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trials in National Investigation Agency courts often take decades to resolve. It has been estimated that at the current pace of hearings Jagtar\u2019s trials will reach a verdict in 40 years. So far there have been almost 400 hearings in the various cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legal process is characterised by endless delays. For example, a petition filed in 2017 seeking a medical examination, a psychiatric assessment of Jagtar and legal proceedings against the officers responsible for his torture was repeatedly adjourned at the High Court of Punjab. On 27 August 2025 it was dismissed as \u201cinfructuous\u201d because of Jagtar\u2019s acquittal in the Moga case and \u201cefflux of time\u201d – despite the fact that there has been no investigation of Jagtar\u2019s torture claims, the officers responsible have not been held accountable, and the remaining eight cases are all based on the same so-called confession Jagtar signed on a blank piece of paper after police repeatedly electrocuted him and threatened to burn him alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, a group of more than 100 parliamentarians wrote to then Foreign Secretary<\/a>, David Lammy, demanding decisive UK Government action to secure Jagtar\u2019s release. The same day, India\u2019s Supreme Court declined to hear Jagtar\u2019s petition for bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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