'Foreign Office set up to fail people like my brother'
Daily Record|October 21, 2023
Gurpreet's anger over sibling still held in India
GEMMA RYDER
'Foreign Office set up to fail people like my brother'

THE Tory Government has been slammed by MPs for its repeated failures to secure the release of detained Scot Jagtar Singh Johal despite allegations of torture.

And his brother Gurpreet said: "The Foreign Office is set up to fail people like Jagtar."

A damning report from the foreign affairs committee yesterday found ministers had been "too slow" or "entirely unwilling to call out guilty countries such as India which arbitrarily detained people like Jagtar.

This story is from the October 21, 2023 edition of Daily Record.

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