{"id":38707,"date":"2025-08-01T18:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38707\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T18:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:33:10","slug":"dubious-sources-mea-on-uk-report-accusing-india-of-transnational-repression-latest-news-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/38707\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dubious sources&#8217;: MEA on UK report accusing India of &#8216;transnational repression&#8217; | Latest News India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India on Friday strongly dismissed a British parliamentary committee report that named it among countries allegedly involved in &#8220;transnational repression&#8221; in the United Kingdom, calling the allegations &#8220;baseless&#8221; and rooted in dubious, anti-India sources.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Khalistan_1754064215002_1754064215331.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the details related to India cited in the report was provided by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistan organisation banned in India (AFP)\" title=\"Some of the details related to India cited in the report was provided by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistan organisation banned in India (AFP)\"\/>   Some of the details related to India cited in the report was provided by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistan organisation banned in India (AFP)    <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) asserted that the report&#8217;s references to India, released by the UK Parliament\u2019s Joint Committee on Human Rights on July 30, were based on &#8220;unverified&#8221; inputs from banned or discredited organisations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen the references to India in the report and categorically reject these baseless allegations,&#8221; MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in response to media queries.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that, \u201cThese claims stem from unverified and dubious sources, predominantly linked to proscribed entities and individuals with a clear, documented history of anti-India hostility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report, titled \u201cTransnational Repression in the UK\u201d, listed India alongside countries such as China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and others accused of targeting dissidents, journalists, and activists on British soil.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the details related to India cited in the report was provided by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a pro-Khalistan organisation banned in India under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and other UK-based Sikh groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deliberate reliance on discredited sources calls into question the credibility of the report itself,\u201d Jaiswal added.<\/p>\n<p>India has consistently raised concerns with UK authorities about the activities of extremist groups based in the UK that promote separatist agendas, particularly those advocating for Khalistan, which India considers a threat to its sovereignty and territorial integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India on Friday strongly dismissed a British parliamentary committee report that named it among countries allegedly involved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22480,22478,59,57,58,308,50,22481,22479,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-38707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-anti-india-sources","tag-british-parliamentary-committee","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-india","tag-news","tag-sikhs-for-justice","tag-transnational-repression","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}