Court rules against Sikh despite history of police beatings

.share-print{margin-right: 135px !important;}Share this:—PrintAs a follower of the Sikh religion in India, and a member of a political party calling for a separate Sikh nation, Jagtar Singh was a likely target of police in the 1990s. At an immigration court hearing in San Francisco, he testified that police in his native country had detained him for days at a time and severely beaten him in 1994, 1995 and again in 1997, when he was taken to a hospital unconscious. He was released each time only after relatives or friends bribed the police, and he fled to the United States in 1999 and applied for political asylum. At Singh’s last hearing in [...]