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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

British Sikhs being asked about views on India at UK airports, says Labour MP

A UK border sign at Manchester airport.
Gill said one man had been stopped and held at Manchester airport for several hours on his way back from a family holiday in Turkey. Photograph: Peter Powell/PA

British Sikhs are being stopped at airports and questioned about their attitudes towards India, a Labour MP has said, raising concerns about Delhi’s influence over British security checks.

Preet Gill, one of the most prominent Sikhs in parliament, has written to the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, to voice her concern over a number of British Sikhs who she says have been stopped and questioned at length when re-entering the UK. The questions have centred on the decades-old dispute over whether Sikhs should be granted their own homeland in south Asia.

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