North American authorities continue to fight India’s anti-Sikh transnational repression agenda

A Punjabi language message from the FBI encouraging the community to report issues of transnational repression is the latest in a series of acts from North American authorities, aiming to dismantle India’s anti-Sikh transnational repression campaign.

The message (see below), which calls for Punjabis suspicious of Indian State interference in the USA to contact intelligence agency the FBI, was released today and is being shared widely within North American Punjabi circles. It comes after the USA recently come closer to punishing a man for leading an Indian State attempt at assassinating a Sikh activist in New York last year.

Last week a Czech high court ruled that Indian national Nikhil Gupta, detained in a Prague prison on murder-for-hire charges in an alleged assassination attempt facilitated by the Indian State on Gurpatwant Singh Pannun can be extradited to the United States, defeating an appeal by Gupta’s legal team. Pannun is the General Counsel of the global Sikh advocacy group Sikhs For Justice, the group running the global Khalistan (free Sikh homeland) referendum campaign, which begins in the USA this week.

Similarly, Canadian authorities remain working against Indian interference in the country after finally admitting the issue last year after the assassination of Shaheed (martyr) Bhai Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey (BC). The country’s Foreign Interference Commission confirmed they will now also be specifically looking at India and its alleged meddling in the last two general elections in Canada, alongside China and Russia, as part of a report on the topic to be released in May 2024.

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