Barricades at UK High Commission in India removed

Описание: (22 Mar 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI, INDIA - 22 March 2023
1. Pan from the British embassy to a an uprooted police picket
2. Pan from the embassy building to the marks on ground where authorities removed police barricades
3. Marks on the ground where barricades were put up earlier
4. Mid of the embassy building
5. British flag atop the embassy
6. Exterior of the official residence of the British High Commissioner
7. A vacant security enclosure outside the building
8. British High Commissioner's residence
9. British emblem atop the building

STORYLINE:
Indian police on Wednesday removed temporary security barricades outside the British High Commission in New Delhi and the residence of the British high commissioner.

There was no immediate comment from the police or the government on the measure, which comes a day after at least 200 Sikh protesters affiliated with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party held demonstrations outside the British High Commission in New Delhi over an incident in London.

On Sunday supporters of the separatist “Khalistan” movement pulled down the Indian flag at India’s high commission in the British capital and smashed the building’s window in a show of anger against moves to arrest separatist leader Amritpal Singh.

India’s foreign ministry denounced the incident and summoned the U.K.’s deputy high commissioner in New Delhi to protest what it called the breach of security at the embassy in London.

The supporters of the Khalistan movement also vandalized the Indian Consulate in San Francisco on Monday.

Indian police have launched a search for Singh, who has revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland, stirring fears of violence in northwestern Punjab state where there's a history of bloody insurgency.

Police have accused the 30-year-old preacher and his aides of creating discord in the state, which is still haunted by the memories of an armed insurgency in the 1980s for an independent Sikh state called Khalistan.

The insurgency had prompted a controversial military operation by the Indian government that killed thousands of people, according to official estimates.

AP video shot by Rishi Lekhi

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