Browsing Tag: Sikhs For Justice

A Sikh rights body in the US has said that it will use provisions of the Hague Service Treaty to serve the summons of a US court on Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal in a case accusing him of human rights violations.

A judge has dismissed a Sikh group's U.S. lawsuit against a Indian official who was in Wisconsin last year in the wake of the mass shooting at the Sikh temple at Oak Creek.

Ever since 1984 when the Indian government and its minions brought to life with a vengeance the fictional classic of George Orwell, Sikhs the world over have cringed at the propaganda machine of the Indian government...

The Sikhs for Justice has maintained that it’s lawsuit, ‘a legal bolt of lightning’ which hit the corrupt Punjab Chief minister Badal in Wisconsin, USA .., seems to be a fulfillment of a prediction by a great 4th century B.C. Greek philosopher, Aristotle...

The plaintiff's are demanding that a judgment by default be entered against the defendant Congress (I) and that an evidentiary hearing be scheduled in order to determine the amount of compensatory and punitive damages to be awarded to the plaintiffs.

“The use of the death penalty undermines human dignity and any miscarriage or failure of justice in the implementation of the death penalty is irreversible and irreparable,” the memorandum said. Bhullar was sentenced to death for masterminding a 1993 car bomb attack in front of the Youth Congress office in New Delhi...

"India often lays claim to being the world's largest democracy, but the claim rings hollow," said Jatinder Singh Grewal, Youth Coordinator for SFJ Canada. "I'm not sure who said it, but the true measure of a democracy is the way it treats its minorities - whether they be Sikhs, Muslims or Christians."

Sikhs for Justice and All India Sikh Student Federation have moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court demanding a judicial probe into the horrific killing of Sikhs in village Hondh-Chillar in Rewari District, Haryana on November 2, 1984.

Under The “1503 PETITION” the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the Commission on Human Rights examine complaints which appear to show consistent patterns of gross and reliably attested human rights violations as in the case of Sikhs in India.

Canadian MP Sukh Dhaliwal, who hogged the limelight this year for filing a petition in Canadian Parliament to recognise the 1984 riots as genocide, today said he would support Sikhs for Justice, a New York-based human rights advocacy group, in filing a similar petition with the UNO.

"No other world leader is more capable to understand the plight of Sikhs in India than President Obama who himself comes from a minority community which has suffered a lot of discrimination and injustice in America," said Pannun,