UK News: LONDON: Two Indian flags were set ablaze and then stamped on during a "remembrance march and freedom rally" by British Sikhs in London on Sunday to ma.
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Sikh Boy Has Sacred Hair Cut in School, Leaving Parents Outraged
On 5/26/21 at 6:54 AM EDT
A five-year-old Sikh boy has had his sacred hair cut with scissors by another pupil at his school in southeast London, sparking outrage from his family and community groups.
Many Sikhs follow the practice of kesh allowing one s hair to grow naturally out of respect for God s creation. The boy, a pupil at Alexandra McLeod Primary School in the suburb of Abbey Wood, had never before had his hair cut, reported News Shopper.
Totally unacceptable & devastating to hear about the bullying & assault on a 5yr old boy at South London School Alexandra McLeod. For a Sikh boy to have his sacred unshorn hair cut by another pupil while in school is one of the worst possible #Anitsikhhate crimes @GavinWilliamsonpic.twitter.com/a78JzS16n7 Sikh Federation UK (@SikhFedUK) May 23, 2021
LONDON: A British Sikh who was racially bullied so severely that a psychiatrist warned he may never return to work is seeking record damages.
Kieran Sidhu, 36, endured extensive racial abuse from three colleagues while working for tech firm Exertis in southern England. Glynn Smith, Stuart Smith and John Cleary called him an “Arab shoe bomber,” described him as “the only ethnic on the team,” looked up his home address and called it Aleppo and said he was a “temperamental Syrian immigrant.”
The trio also threw his laptop in the bin and hid his electronic equipment and chair.
He is now seeking some £6.6 million ($9.4 million) in damages after a psychiatrist told a tribunal he may never be able to work again. The highest ever tribunal payout in Britain is currently £4.7 million, made by the Royal Bank of Scotland last year in a case of disability discrimination. Sidhu is a Sikh Scotsman of Indian descent and has won claims of racial discrimination and harassment and co