Jagtar Singh Johal has been arbitrarily detained in India for five years and faces the death penalty for his alleged role in an extremist Sikh group. His case has been shrouded in mystery since his arrest in Punjab in 2017. Now Johal’s lawyers have filed a High Court complaint after identifying his case among anonymous details published in the UK’s investigative commissioner’s annual report. It shows how MI5 and MI6 passed information to a foreign power about a British national who was detained and tortured. The details matched Johal’s exactly
