Eight family members of Ravinderjit Singh Gogi, a U.S. citizen imprisoned in India for the past two months, met the man’s congressional representative on Wednesday afternoon to plead for U.S. Congress to demand Gogi’s release and return to the United States.
A feature film is being made to tell the story of some of those who were trapped inside the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar when the Indian Government invaded in June of 1984. The film is titled ‘Their Last Stand’ and is being made by NAUJAWANI.com who are using crowd-funding to enhance their budget for the production. It is the first time that a feature film is being made about this topic outside of South Asia, and is the first film to solely consider the attack on the Darbar Sahib as its subject matter.
A Sikh youth organisation named the Sikh Youth Front today maintained that police assault and manhandling of Ravinder Jeet Singh Gogi was planned at political level.
In a last ditch effort to stall the screening of controversial movie Nanak Shah Fakir in the entire country, the Dal Khalsa wrote to Home Minister of India urging the Union government to act with Godspeed and stop the screening of the movie slated to be released tomorrow on April 17.
The Delhi High Court bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Ashutosh Kumar yesterday dismissed the bail plea of Girdhari Lal, one of the three convicts serving a life term in a November 1984 Sikh massacre related case.
The Jammu and Kashmir government must ensure an independent criminal investigation into the killing of a 24-year-old student by army personnel on 13 April, Amnesty International India said.
A United States (US) based human rights and advocacy group Sikhs for Justice has moved a lawsuit in a US federal court demanding "terrorist" tag for Hindutva fountain-head Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). However, the United States' government is against any such move and it has the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed against Secretary of State John Kerry by a SFJ.
On April 16th, 2015 Communities United Against Narendra Modi, a coalition of concerned community groups, will be calling into action a protest against the visit of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi that day to Vancouver.
Various Sikh bodies namely Dal Khalsa, SAD (Panch Pardani), Damdami Taksal, United Akali Dal, and Khalsa Panchayat today asked the Indian govt and Delhi govt to ban the film Nanak Shah Fakir immediately on the lines of the Punjab govt.
Hailing the state government move to suspend the screening of controversial movie, ‘Nanak Shah Fakir’, the Akal Takht and the SGPC today demanded that the Central government should also ban the movie.
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