After US President Donald Trump imposed 25 percent tariffs and fines on India, Britain has also given a blow. The British Parliamentary Committee warned on Wednesday that foreign governments are ‘increasingly moving forward in their efforts to silence and intimidate’ individuals and communities in Britain. Britain’s Joint Human Rights Committee (JCHR) has also included India’s name in the list of 12 countries against which evidence of international repression has been found in the ‘International Repression in Britain’ (TNR) report. At present, there has been no immediate comment from India on this report.

The JCHR includes members of various parties of the British Parliament and its task is to investigate matters related to human rights in Britain. The report claims that the committee has received ‘credible evidence’ that many countries are involved in such repressive actions on British soil, which has had a serious impact on the targeted people, created fear in them, limited their freedom of expression and movement and weakened their sense of security.

Which 12 countries are in the list?

The report claims that the investigation of such cases being conducted by the country’s security agency ‘MI5’ has increased by 48 percent since 2022. The report said, “Our investigation has found evidence that shows that several countries conducted TNR activities on British soil. Several evidences accuse Bahrain, China, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates of carrying out TNR activities in the UK.”

Mention of Khalistani organization SFJ

The JCHR report cited India as saying that the evidence against India is linked to Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistani organization declared an unlawful organization under India’s UAPA Act. The report also claims that it has also found evidence about the conduct of individual member countries accused of being involved in the “systematic misuse” of the Interpol mechanism.