Children of Briton jailed in India without trial protest Modi’s UK visit
On Thursday, Sir Keir Starmer toast for the Anglo-Hint Relations in Dama, while toast, while the Downing Street stopped only two meters meter with two young young British jackets and baggage.
Alois Christian Michel and his sister Alienor did not protest a government policy or trade agreement. They were begging their father for the freedom of Christian Michel.
Christian, an British citizen, has been imprisoned for more than six years of trial in India’s bad -famous Tihar prison. Despite the guarantee orders from both the Supreme Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India, he continued to be imprisoned after he could not meet the conditions for his release and imprisoned him in a legal and political limb.
Alois who made a special interview Independent During the protest with his sister, they said they had lost their patience with successive British governments.
“The United Kingdom Government did not miserable violations of human rights violations in India, especially in the community of nations, Alo Alois says.
The protests were gathered to approve a comprehensive trade agreement of 6 billion pounds in an investment, which is expected to increase the UK’s GDP GDP by Sir Keir and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Alois, referring to the British authorities, says that they will ‘increase the interest in the case’. Is this all of them after seven years? ”
Michel, a businessman and consultant, was returned from Dubai to India in 2018 upon allegations that he was mediating at a defense agreement containing Italian company Agustawestland. Indian inspectors claim that bribes have been paid to make a contract for 322 million pounds to supply helicopters – the charges they refused.
India’s legal system is slowly and overloaded in a malicious way, so if they serve half of the maximum sentence if they are sentenced, they have a law that predicts that a suspect should be released from the prison. Michel had to be released in the middle of 2021, in the case of seven years.
His lawyers argue that he should be released unconditionally – instead, the investigators continued to investigate the case while the courts gave him bail. This means that Michel stayed in prison because he cannot meet the strict conditions applied. There is no address in India, there is no family member in the country, and the factors that make the guarantee order effectively make sense – does not want to act as a guarantor.
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At a hearing held in April, Michel announced that the former deputy Johnson and former Minister Boris Johnson, who wanted to guarantee him to the court.
When he returns to London, his children are cut off from their father, their single contacts are short, drowned phone calls.
Alois said, “The last time I talked to him last weekend. Less than 10 seconds.” Independent. “This is what we have achieved. I haven’t seen him for about seven and a half years.”
When his father was returned, he was only 20 years old. “I was in the middle of my work. Everything stopped,” he remembers. “Emotionally, financially, it was really hard. And for my sister… When our father was taken, he was just a young man.”
The brothers never visited their father in India. He says Alois’s reason is fear.
“In Tihar prison. I want to see him, but how much I take a risk by going there? “This is very dangerous. And I will not go into a position where my father had to do anything because of my arrest in India.”
They have reasons to worry. Michel claimed two separate attempts about his life in prison, claiming that a rented killer admitted that he had paid money to assassinate him. Despite his objections, he claims that a meaningful investigation has not been initiated.
“A professional killer tried to kill me twice,” said Michel Independent during an earlier court view. “He was paid money and did not investigate who he paid or why.”
Michel’s legal team argues that the entire case is motivated politically, claiming that the UN work group was detained in 2021 after the arbitrary detained.
Michel’s son said, “The United Nations said it should be released. The Indian law should be released. And here we are still here,” says Michel’s son. “All we want is that the Indian government complies with its own laws and the United Kingdom government holds them.”
“We really want something desperate to be something,” Alois says. “Some people wait in hope. We are waiting in despair in our situation.”
As his ordeal reached, Michel’s health suffered. Earlier this year, he was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi for hip surgery and walked with a cane while he joined the court appearances since then.
“Now we have a fear, Alo says Alois. “He never comes back.”
The wider effects of Michel’s detention are far beyond the pain of a single family. The case has become a turnusol test for the desire to protect the citizens of the British government abroad – especially in doing so profitable diplomatic participation.
Michel’s son, “The Great British people have authorized the Labor Party to reclaim the country from the comprehension of bureaucratic dominance and to regain the pride of the country,” he says. “However, this government is weak – obedient to bureaucracy, does not want to defend its own citizens.”
Common efforts against trade, security cooperation and organized crimes dominated the headlines around the Modi-Starmer Summit.
However, despite the heart of the family, Michel’s prison sentence was not publicly explained during Modi’s visit to England. Both leaders did not allow the media to ask any questions, and their talks took place in the Prime Minister’s residence away from any public anger demonstration in London.
“We want both governments to respect the UN decision, Alo says Alois. “Follow the law and let it go.”
