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Scot detained in India for five years begs Liz Truss not to swap his freedom for trade deals in handwritten note

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Scottish Sikh Jagtar Singh Johal has written a heartbreaking note to new Prime Minister Liz Truss, begging her not to trade his freedom for deals with India, where he has been detained for the last five years.

The 35-year-old passed on the handwritten letter to his lawyer in court in Delhi this morning, after yet another pre-trial hearing was cancelled.Jagtar, from Dumbarton, was in Punjab in northern India for his wedding in 2017, when his family say he was arrested and bundled into an unmarked car.

The UK citizen says he has been detained and subjected to torture, including electric shocks, and faces the death penalty over his activism and campaigning for Sikh human rights.The powerful note, shared with the Record, firstly congratulates Ms Truss on her appointment as Prime Minister and references her achievements on releasing two UK citizens from an Iranian prison, but asks if she will do anything for him and another prisoner, Christian Michel, who has been held in India since December 2018.He writes: "Congratulations on your appointment as Prime Minister.

I am hoping that you show more guts than your predecessors when it comes to addressing the issue of UK citizens languishing in Indian prisons for years without trial."Just a few days ago I had come across an article which mentioned your achievements as Foreign Minister, one of which was securing the release of two UK citizens from Iranian prison.

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