IT HAS BEEN a year since Raghbir Singh was put in prison. Raghbir is a member of the NUJ and editor of the Sikh Punjabi newspaper Awaze Qaum. He faces the threat of deportation.
Rachbir is not an ilegal immigran", until his imprisonment he lived children, all of whom are british citizens. Nor has he committed any crime. After a year in jail Raghbir still has not been charged with anything. Yet the Home Secretary intends to deport him as a "threat to national security". The Home Secretary has not only refused him the right to request bail or the right to appcal, he has even been allowed to know the specific charges 3galmsl Indian government and has expressed strong views on the political situation in India. Many MPs apd human rights activists fear this is an attempt to silence ternational are considering taking up Vigil outside Winson Green Prison, Birmingham his case as their first ever case of a "prisoner of conscience"" in Britain. Saturday March 30. assembling 11.5uam al Black Palch kecreason Ground, Foundry Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands. The march will go past Winson Green prison, where Raghbir is rockco up, cerore the taily
Socialist Outlook 99 • March 16, 1996.