BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 5. Moninder Singh
Bual, Chairman of the Sikh Federation of Canada, a well-known human
rights activist who works closely with the Baku Initiative Group
(BIG), is targeted by the Indian government.


This is reflected in the information released by BIG.


According to the information, Bual's appeals to international
organizations and official documents submitted, as well as the
direct assassination plans and transnational repression aimed at
his and his family's lives, have sparked serious discussions at the
international level.


The group noted that according to a newly released UN Special
Rapporteurs' report, Moninder Singh Bual has received 4 official
"death threat alerts" from Canadian security agencies since 2022
for advocating for Sikh self-determination on international
platforms.


"The last, fourth official notice was delivered directly to his
home on February 22, 2026, and for the first time in these
assassination plans, which Canadian intelligence agencies assessed
quite seriously, not only the activist himself, but also his wife
and two minor children were directly targeted.


According to the report, this secret assassination attempt is a
clear example of the Indian state's strategy to physically destroy
dissidents and human rights defenders cooperating with UN special
mechanisms in any geography, and it is not accidental that the
activist was there before he left for Geneva to participate in the
61st session of the UN Human Rights Council.


In connection with the critical situation that has arisen, five
UN special rapporteurs and experts on human rights,
counter-terrorism, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion
have sent a letter of formal protest and appeal to the Canadian
government.


UN officials have directly stated that the threat faced by
Moninder Singh and his family is part of the illegal transnational
repression, contract killings, and revenge attacks carried out by
the Indian authorities and intelligence agencies abroad.


The letter mentioned the murder of another Sikh activist,
Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who received the same warning in 2023 on
Canadian soil by Indian secret agents and organized crime groups,
and expressed serious concern over Canada's continued vigilance
against the state terrorism carried out by official Delhi on the
territory of sovereign countries.


The documents prove that the Indian government is not satisfied
with suppressing the fundamental rights of ethnic and religious
minorities within its borders, but is also trying to silence Sikh
activists living and operating in Western countries through illegal
espionage, blackmail, and terrorist methods.


After the full text of the official document of the UN experts
was made public, it became the main topic of the world press. The
Guardian, as well as leading media agencies such as Canada's CBC
News, Global News, and The Independent, devoted extensive space to
the topic, highlighting the violation of the internal security of
sovereign states by Indian intelligence networks, secret
conspiracies against Sikh activists in Europe and North America.
and have sharply criticized the establishment of threat networks,"
the report noted.


The report pointed out that the social media profiles and
website of the Baku Initiative Group are regularly subjected to
cyberattacks originating from India.