Report a Hate Crime Incident: http://virsag.co.uk/1/hate_crime/hatecrime.html London—The Metropolitan Police admitted that the Sikh community is particularly vulnerable to backlash crimes in the aftermath of the London bombings because of their visibility and that this is a police concern. “Please be aware…

Hate Crime Incident report facility set up at: https://unitedsikhs.org/hatecrime/ London—The Sikh community will meet the Metropolitan police at New Scotland Yard tomorrow (Tuesday) to seek the stepping up of security measures to protect the Sikh community and its Gurdwaras from the…

Paris—UNITED SIKHS has submitted to the President of the French National Assembly, Jean-Louis Debré, its representations to the Law Review Commission which will shortly review the law which banned the wearing of articles of faith, including the Sikh turban in…

Paris—A delegation comprising members of the French Action Committee for the Sikh Turban and UNITED SIKHS had a hectic schedule last week meeting the French government, lawyers for the French Turban litigation and Members of the European Parliament, to advance…

UNITED SIKHS Meets with an Array of Organizations UNITED SIKHS Legal Director Harpreet Singh was invited to attend meetings with the following organizations: 1. US Commission on Religious Freedom 2. Helsinki Commission, an organisation that monitors human rights, security and…

Melun (Outskirts of Paris), France A French administrative court in Melun today upheld the expulsion of three Sikh school children for wearing a Turban on grounds that the Turban made them instantly recognisable as Sikhs. ‘According to the law, the…

Westchester County, New York—Despite 15 year old Amandeep Singh’s exemplary academic and disciplinary records, he was suspended from his New York state Greenburgh Central School last month when the Kirpan he has been wearing to school for 7 years was…

London—A Sikh woman who had her Kirpan confiscated by Belgian police as she was checking in to travel on the Eurostar train to London today was told that her article of faith was a prohibited weapon whereas a passenger was…