An eleven year old boy was attacked in a racist hate crime in Liverpool in full public view on a packed bus and not a single person bothered to help him. Far from it, onlookers watched on as the child was maliciously assaulted by having his turban ripped from his head and a tirade of racist abuse was hurled at him by a group of nine older caucasian youths.

In the last 4 weeks Sikhs from the UK, Canada, USA, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands that took part in the World Sikh Lobby in Geneva on 14 March have as promised continued dialogue with around ten UN Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts. Apart from the successful meetings that took place that day there have been many written exchanges and talks.

AN 11-YEAR-OLD Sikh boy had his turban ripped off and stamped upon by a group of racist thugs on a Liverpool bus. Arjan Rhode was attacked by a gang of teenagers on Monday afternoon on the 82 service in Garston. Moments after he got on the bus near Aigburth Road, he was tapped on the shoulder and his turban was suddenly pulled from his head. A group of around nine yobs, aged around 18, passed the turban around while mocking the St Benedict’s RC College pupil.

Challenging claims of some people in the UK trying to sell a steel armour as one belonging to Guru Gobind Singh, the Central Gurdwara (Khalsa Jatha) of London, which is the oldest gurdwara in the UK, has refuted that the steel armour plate ever belonged to Guru Gobind Singh. Lot number L08220/269 described as “A Rare Sikh Steel Armour Plate, North West India/Pakistan, 18th Century” is going under the hammer at English auction house Sotheby’s on the April 9 and is expected to fetch anywhere from 10,000-12,000 pounds. The SGPC and other Sikh organisations have expressed desire to bid for it and bring it back to India

Sikh representatives from across the world held a Sikh human rights awareness rally outside the main square in front of the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva.  The rally and meetings that followed were announced three months earlier and deliberately timed to coincide with the 159th anniversary of the end of ‘Sikh Raj’.