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Article: US Sikh body campaigns for prisoners to keep hair

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September 12, 2008
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New York, Sept. 12 -- A Sikh body is mobilising opinion against forcing prisoners of the community to cut their hair following the case of Florida prison authorities forcibly cutting the hair of a Sikh inmate, Jagmohan Singh Ahuja.

United Sikhs, a US-based advocacy group, which termed the July incident involving Ahuja as "gross violation" of religious rights, has started a signature campaign in favour of the right for Sikh prisoners to keep 'kesh' (unshorn hair).

United Sikhs said in a statement Thursday that its members and lawyers are approaching Florida governor and officials of Duval county jail in Jacksonville as ...

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