Rishi Sunak was accused of making MPs feel “very depressed” after he sidestepped pleas to publicly call for the release of Scot Jagtar Singh…
Alicia Kearns, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, said MPs were unclear about the outcomes of the discussions.
She said: “Will the Government now finally officially call for him to be released because the UN has accepted he is arbitrarily detained and does the Prime Minister believe that he has been unfairly treated or even tortured whilst he’s been held?”Sunak replied: “We are committed to seeing Johal’s case resolved as soon as possible.
“We continue to provide consular assistance to him and his family and have raised concerns about issues including consular access to Johal, the judicial process and reports of mistreatment with the Indian government on multiple occasions, including myself with Prime Minister Modi just this weekend.
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