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As 2023 comes to an end.

2249 days in arbitrary detention, 334 hearings & to date, NO EVIDENCE produced against 🇬🇧 national #JagtarSinghJohal. Failed by 🇬🇧 Government

The fight & campaign continues into 2024.

A look back into the 2023:

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#BringJaggiHome Leading Panjabi Newspaper starts the New Year with awareness about Jagtar.

Backbench Business Debate takes place in House of Commons.

National Security Bill concerns raised.

Previous Foreign Secretary meets with the family.

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6 years ago today, my brother was abducted, tortured and detained by Indian authorities.

Somehow, the British Government still hasn’t sought his release. Here are 6 reasons why the UK government must bring him home.

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1/7 1️⃣ Jagtar has been tortured by the Indian authorities.

In 2022, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Jagtar was subjected to torture and should be released.



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My brother #JagtarSinghJohal, a Scottish national, travels to India in Oct 2017 to get married, marriage takes place, joyful occasion on the 18th. On 4th Nov 2017 he is out shopping with his wife & cousin, unknown men pull him out of a car & hood him 1/19 bungle him into a van and drive off, leaving his wife and cousin in the middle of a busy road, screaming for help, police complaints made in India to no joy, I am called first thing in the morning and cannot believe what I've been told. I pick up the phone to the @FCO 2/19