UK – The Guardian, Oct. 01, 2025
Activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in Indian prison for nearly eight years without full trial
The sisters of the British-Egyptian human rights campaigner Alaa Abd el-Fattah have intervened for the first time since his release from prison in Egypt to call on Keir Starmer to push Narendra Modi to free a British Sikh activist when he meets the Indian prime minister next week.
Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, has been held in an Indian jail for nearly eight years without facing full trial in what his supporters say is an arbitrary and egregious denial of justice by a British ally.
Mona and Sanaa Seif – sisters of Abd el-Fattah, who was released from a Cairo jail a fortnight ago after years of campaigning – have joined forces with other victims of arbitrary detention to urge Starmer to tell the Indian prime minister that the continued mistreatment of Johal will have “long-lasting consequences” for the British-Indian bilateral relationship.
