{"id":643654,"date":"2022-05-08T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/uk-urged-to-act-after-un-panel-rules-detention-of-briton-in-india-arbitrary"},"modified":"2022-05-08T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:45:14","slug":"uk-urged-to-act-after-un-panel-rules-detention-of-briton-in-india-arbitrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/08\/uk-urged-to-act-after-un-panel-rules-detention-of-briton-in-india-arbitrary\/","title":{"rendered":"UK urged to act after UN panel rules detention of Briton in India \u2018arbitrary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jagtar Singh Johal has been detained since 2017 and allegedly tortured, accused of helping to fund assassination plot<\/p>\n<p>The UK is under pressure to insist India release Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen, after a UN working group ruled he had been arbitrarily detained by India and his detention lacked any legal basis.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson apparently raised the case when he met the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, last month and provided a written note of consular cases, but Foreign Office ministers have not confirmed whether they regard his detention as arbitrary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/08\/uk-urged-to-act-after-un-panel-rules-detention-of-briton-in-india-arbitrary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jagtar Singh Johal has been detained since 2017 and allegedly tortured, accused of helping to fund assassination plotThe UK is under pressure to insist India release Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen, after a UN working group ruled he had been arbi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,6,452,640,30152,14,2038,1314,1,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643746,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643654\/revisions\/643746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}