Mr Johal's brother, Gurpreet Singh Johal, said:" I shouldn't be surprised by now by this sort of

that Mr Johal’s case is being handled by Lord Ahmad, the minister for south Asia.Mr Johal, from

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly expressed similar sentiments in July when he wrote to Mr Johal's

attention of the Indian authorities.... Image caption, Gurpreet Singh Johal has criticised the UK

Opposition MPs raised concerns over human rights in India after the Prime Minister said on a visit last week that the UK hopes to have a trade deal worked out with the country by October. One Labour told the House of Commons that the UK would be “ dancing on the human rights and civil liberties ” of communities across India if it signed a free-trade deal with the country. Labour MP Zarah Sultana( Coventry South) criticised the Prime Minister for visiting a JCB factory the day after reports its v

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It warned that Mr Abdel-Fattah’s ongoing hunger strike was “ an act of peaceful resistance …[ that] may be his last ”.... His younger sister Sanaa Seif, also a British citizen, has also been intermittently jailed after she protested against his detention. For the last three years the Egyptian authorities have barred him from exercising, seeing the sun or even knowing the time.... They are hell bent on making an example of Alaa....

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