Hundreds of Sikhs are expected to protest outside the Conservative Party Conference in the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham.

The protest organised by the Federation of Sikh Organisations (FSO) will take place between 1-3pm and will be just before Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary addresses the conference.

The protest is against the continued detention of Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton and the refusal of Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary to meet with the family and their MP Martin Docherty-Hughes of the SNP despite promises made by the previous Foreign Secretary in Parliament.

The protest will also highlight anti-terror police raids last week targeting five Sikh activists supporting the campaign for the release of Jagtar Singh Johal.

Thirty one-year old Jagtar travelled to India to get married having been engaged six months earlier in his first visit to Punjab after 7-8 years.

Last November and a couple of weeks after his wedding he was abducted, hooded and thrown into a van whilst out shopping with his wife and cousin sister and has now been in an Indian jail for 330 days.

Within days of his abduction and torture by Indian police and denial of proper access to British consular staff there was a huge outcry by the British Sikh community and around 250 MPs that had letters from constituents.

Theresa May was therefore compelled to speak to the media specifically about Jagtar’s case. The next day in Parliament Rory Stewart, the Foreign Minister stood up and in response to a question from Jagtar’s MP about his torture threatened the Indian authorities with ‘extreme action’.

In April this year Theresa May raised Jagtar’s case with Narendra Modi when he came to 10 Downing Street for a meeting before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

However, last week’s police raids on the homes of five Sikh activists linked to the campaign to bring Jagtar Singh Johal back home has created huge tensions between the Sikh community, police and Home Office as further details emerge. Jagtar has already made 55 court appearances, but no witnesses or evidence has yet been presented in court.