1985 Air India Bombing Prisoner Released


On Wednesday, Inderjit Singh Reyat, a Sikh immigrant to Canada, was released from a Canadian prison, after serving 20 years, and was the only person ever convicted of the Air India bombings that killed 331 in 1985.

Reyat was convicted of lying in court to cover for his co-accused and previously served more than 15 years in prison for making the bombs that were put into two suitcases and planted on planes leaving Vancouver. He served two thirds of a 9 year sentence for perjury also. The bombings took place during a crackdown on Sikhs fighting for an independent homeland and protests over the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

Reyat has been ordered to live on parole at a halfway house until Aug 2018, till the expiry of his perjury sentence. He must have no contact with victims' families or alleged co-conspirators, and is forbidden from engaging in political activities.

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I hope he dies slowly and painfully