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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/brother-dumbarton-man-detained-india-24885633

Brother of Dumbarton man detained in India says Foreign Secretary 'sidetracked' meeting plea

  • 13:17, 1 SEP 2021

The relatives of Jagtar Singh Johal are disappointed with the response from the Foreign Secretary.

The brother of a Dumbarton man detained in India says the Foreign Secretary has snubbed pleas for a meeting.

Gurpreet Singh Johal, who has been lobbying for the release of his brother Jagtar Singh Johal, says Dominic Raab had “sidetracked” the request.

The First Minister sent a letter to him earlier this month calling on him to meet personally with the 34-year-old’s relatives.

But Gurpreet said the Foreign Secretary had avoided the question and did not commit to a face-to-face meeting.

He said: “I’m disappointed because he has provided a standard government reply stating ‘we are doing this and this’ but no commitment for a personal meeting.

“There is nothing meaningful in the response.

“He has totally sidetracked the First Minister’s question urging him to meet with us.

“I understand there’s a lot going on in Afghanistan which has his attention but he could still agree to meet in the future or even speak with us on a video call, which would be a compromise. It’s very frustrating but we will continue to lobby. The fight continues.”

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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, has said he is already discussing his wife's case with new foreign secretary Liz Truss.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 43-year-old mother-of-one from London, has been detained in Iran since 2016.

She is currently serving the second of two prison sentences, this one on house arrest after being convicted of propaganda against the Iranian regime.

Mr Ratcliffe said stopping her coming home amounted to "hostage-taking".

Speaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show about his continuing campaign to secure the freedom of his wife and allow her home to see her young daughter, Mr Ratcliffe said that he is due to speak to the new foreign secretary by telephone later.

He hopes that the new foreign secretary, who was only appointed in her new role on Wednesday, will be able to talk to her Iranian counterpart during the UN's General Assembly in New York this week.

He has said that he wants to see "firm" and "clear steps" taken against Iran because of the detention of his wife and other British nationals.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has dual British and Iranian citizenship, was first jailed in Tehran in 2016 on spying charges, which she has always denied.

Mr Ratcliffe said that in his talks with Ms Truss he will pass on the names of 10 people he accuses of being involved with "hostage-taking" in Iran.

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family have reportedly been told by Iranian authorities that she is being detained because of the UK's failure to pay an outstanding £400m debt to Iran, rather than the criminal charge.

Mr Ratcliffe said: "One of the key problems I feel these past years is there's been no cost for the Iranian side to carry on holding Nazanin, to carry on holding others, and so we've seen that now there are more British citizens in prison than there were when Nazanin was first taken."

The chief executive of Amnesty International UK, Sacha Deshmukh, said: "The plight of Nanzanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Anoosheh Ashoori and other UK nationals held in Iran has extended across the last four foreign secretaries. It's long past time that the UK finally brought this deeply distressing episode to an end".

However, Mr Ratcliffe said that it is "a positive sign" to be speaking with the foreign secretary "two days into the job".

Boris Johnson was the foreign secretary when Nazanin was initially detained by Iran. He later had to apologise for remarks that the family believed made the situation worse.

In May, Ms Truss's predecessor Dominic Raab said that Iran's treatment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounted to "torture" and that its government was now using her her in "a cat-and-mouse game" for diplomatic leverage,

He said there was an "obligation on Iran to release her immediately and without condition".

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58615689

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2 hours ago, Kau89r8 said:

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If they pulled another 84, its be the 'Sikhs' who kills Sikhs off first

Despite all is happening to our panth, Sikhs will still sign for the I*dian Army and die for their borders

Yup we have too many snakes in our panth. These people look evil just by looking at them. Idk if its being judgemental but i feel like every person has an aura around them that lets our instincts know whether they are good or bad.

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1 hour ago, proudkaur21 said:

Yup we have too many snakes in our panth. These people look evil just by looking at them. Idk if its being judgemental but i feel like every person has an aura around them that lets our instincts know whether they are good or bad.

Who needs gangu brahmins when we have our own k*s gill's

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