LONDON: A cross-party group of MPs is set to meet with the government’s security minister on Tuesday over the safety of Sikh activists living in the United Kingdom.
Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill said concerns were raised after an “intelligence hit list” appeared on several Indian media channels.
Preet Kaur Gill said that the list talked about twenty Sikhs who don’t live in India referring to them as enemies of the country, according to BBC. She said that 6 British Sikhs were named, with some now under police protection. She explained that some Sikh activists have been contacted by police to tell them their lives were in danger.
The letters – also known as Osman warnings – are issued if officers become aware of an immediate and real threat to somebody’s life. Sikh activists had threats, harassment and intimidation, said the MP for Birmingham Edgbaston.
She said that those are the levels of concerns “We are seeing about transnational repression and seeing different countries trying to further their ideologies here in Britain by suppressing peoples’ voices and their right to speak up on human rights violations.”
Sikh activists on high alert
Sikh activists have been on high alert since evidence emerged from Canada suggesting the Indian regime had a role to play in the killing of Canadian Sikh Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was campaigning for a breakaway Sikh homeland, or Khalistan.
