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Jagtar Singh Johal in solitary

British subject Jagtar is now confined to solitary despite being innocent

April 2025

Some of you will remember we have campaigned for Jagtar, and he was the subject of our World Day Against the Death Penalty action in 2021, when we wrote to Liz Truss, who was then the Home Secretary. He has now been confined to solitary confinement in India subject to 24 hour guard despite being found innocent of concocted terrorism charges. No evidence was produced and it is alleged he was tortured. He has spent 7 years in gaol already. This new action is double jeopardy.

Jagtar is a British subject and the response of the British government has been weak to say the least. His brother is due to have a meeting with the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, but will have to wait 7 weeks for the privilege.

His brother said: “I fear for his physical and mental welfare since he is being excluded from contact with all other prisoners. He has been in jail for seven years, acquitted and now he is being further punished. He is being mentally tortured and I am concerned something is going to happen to him. The aim is to break him.”

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Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire · Jagtar Singh Johal

A rare instance of Lammy doing something right and Starmer punishes him for it.

Do we see what a joke the Labour Party is now? No democracy, no Humanity, just cruelty and indifference as policy.

Disgusting

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

The Guardian · Downing Street rejects Lammy’s claim Israel broke international law in GazaBy Kiran Stacey

Anyway, why are you ignoring big parts of the global grey market in people smuggling, #DavidLammy? What about the #banking system that handles remittances from illegal #immigrants to families back home? This is enabled by criminal money trafficking, but that's now dwarfed by legal #banks and #telcos, who charge exorbitantly on small international transactions.

What, are you scared you'll annoy the institutions? Reduce political donations?

This is not simple, and the #UK and other wealthy countries are as complicit in illegal human trafficking just as much as smuggling gangs.

David Lammy, ultra Remainer, 'hold onto that star and we'll be back"
Gets to the Front Bench and becomes a total Brexiter, "we're all Brexitiers now"
David Lammy, defiant against Trump, becomes Foreign Minister and backtracks on all he said about the Racist Rapist

A Coward, and dear fuck does he love the sound of his own voice.

There's more like him, in every nation right now, selling out.....

The Labour Party is pro-genocide to 'increase investment' in the UK and that will be the only answer we ever get about shit like this.
"Selling out" is Party Policy, prey you aren't a minority Global states have deemed "problematic" or that lives above a resource needing exploitation.

theguardian.com/world/2024/oct

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@randahl
Strong agree with #DavidLammy at the #UN, and I also want to contrast this with the UK's attitude to #Israel's #genocide in #Gaza and terrorism in #Lebanon.

Those two positions are contadictory. If the UK wants to stand up for the UN and international law, it must call out everyone who breaks it equally.

#Putin is an imperialist murderous autocrat.

#Netanyahu and his entourage of a government are war criminals, and the UK is complicit in their crimes.

Both need to be addressed.