On Tuesday 6th October, about 40 MPs, councillors and eminent members of the Sikh diaspora discussed the government’s failure to address anti-Sikh hate. The virtual zoom conference was chaired by Preet Kaur Gill MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for British Sikhs. Speakers included Dabinderjit Singh OBE, a leading Sikh who will for the first time talk about his personal experience of being threatened to be burnt alive in London, Jas Singh, Jas Athwal and Gurpreet Singh Anand.
Hate crimes against Sikhs have increased by 50% between 2016 and 2019 with over150,000 Sikhs being subjected to such incidents each year and95% of Sikh hate crimes being reported to the police appear not to be showing up in police records.
