Overview

• Mocha Bezirgan says he was surrounded, threatened and physically assaulted by pro-Khalistan activists in Vancouver while covering a rally honoring the assassins of Indira Gandhi
• The main aggressor, a UK national with a history of online harassment, snatched Bezirgan’s phone until police intervened and he filed a new report
• Bezirgan identifies Sikhs for Justice as the rally’s organiser and the World Sikh Organization as providing political cover through ties to current and former Canadian MPs
• He warns that Khalistani extremists are openly celebrating violence and planning to “kill Modi’s politics” during the G7 Summit in Alberta
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has confirmed his participation in the June summit after an invitation from Prime Minister Mark Carney, heightening diplomatic and security stakes