All 11 results for alleged speaker:Preet Kaur Gill

Home Department: Transnational Repression by Hostile States (26 Feb 2024)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...serious. In recent months, Five Eyes nations have raised concerns about the actions of agents with links to India targeting Sikh activists in the United Kingdom. Most disturbingly, there have been alleged assassinations and foiled assassination plots. The US and Canadian authorities have taken the lead at senior levels to publicly call out this challenge to their sovereignty, the rule of...

Freedom of Religion and Belief — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (19 Sep 2023)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...is reported to have greatly contributed to the violence and potential genocide in Tigray. Meta is currently facing a $2 billion lawsuit, backed by Amnesty International and filed in Kenya, for allegedly contributing to the violence against the Tigray community. Facebook has allowed the incitement of violence in the region for years, and although there are efforts to stop it, they have not...

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Jagtar Singh Johal (22 Apr 2021)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...if he will make representations to his Indian counterpart on the (a) reported sentencing of UK citizen Jagtar Singh Johal to the death penalty and (b) need for a full investigation into Mr Johal's allegations of torture.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Egypt: Torture (10 Jul 2020)

Preet Kaur Gill: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his Egyptian counterpart on the alleged use of torture to obtain confessions from detainees in that country.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Bahrain: Prisoners (22 Oct 2019)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief visited Bahraini prisons on his most recent trip to Bahrain to verify the allegations of religious discrimination against Shia inmates.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Bahrain: Prisoners (22 Oct 2019)

Preet Kaur Gill: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Government of Bahrain on the 8 October 2019 letter of political prisoner Ali AlHajee raising allegations of religious discrimination in Bahraini prisons during the holy month of Muharram.

Petition - a National Carers Strategy for Unpaid Carers: Jagtar Singh Johal (27 Nov 2018)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...despite the deputy high commissioner in Chandigarh meeting with Jagtar, it is unclear what representations—if any—he made to the Chief Minister of Punjab in respect of the case and the serious allegation of torture?

Written Answers — Department for International Development: Department for International Development: Non-governmental Organisations (15 Mar 2018)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...for International Development, whether her Department plans to change its approach to due diligence when partnering with non-governmental organisations in developing countries as a result of the allegations of sexual misconduct by members of those organisations.

British Nationals Imprisoned Abroad — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (13 Mar 2018)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...and Commonwealth Office that they have been tortured or ill treated while abroad. In 2016, the latest year for which data is available, the FCO delivered assistance to 118 British nationals who alleged that they had been tortured. The total number who have been tortured is of course likely to be higher, as some might not be able to report such violations, or have the chance to. One such...

British Nationals Imprisoned Abroad — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (13 Mar 2018)

Preet Kaur Gill: Absolutely. That is a question I shall be posing to the Minister in my speech. On 14 November, in the courtroom when Jagtar first met his lawyer, briefly, he made allegations of severe torture between 5 and 9 November. That included leg separation and electric shocks to his ears, nipples and genitals. He has told lawyers that police also forced him to sign blank pieces of paper, believed to...

British Nationals Imprisoned Abroad — [Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] (13 Mar 2018)

Preet Kaur Gill: ...further torture. Redress also called for Jagtar to be provided with an immediate independent medical examination—which he has been denied, despite repeated requests by his lawyer—and for the allegations of torture to be investigated according to international law. The next hearing for such a medical will be held sometime in March, almost four months after the alleged torture took...


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