The night before the political activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was murdered, in the spring of 2023, he made an urgent call from his home in Vancouver to a friend in New York. Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a lawyer and fellow-activist, picked up around midnight. Nijjar had phoned to deliver a warning: there was “chattering going on” among acquaintances of his who frequented night clubs in downtown Vancouver. A group of men had recently begun to show up at the clubs, looking for “a high and some weapons”—and inquiring about Nijjar and Pannun. “He said that I needed to be careful, that I was in danger,” Pannun recalled.

The next day, June 18th, Nijjar made his way to the outskirts of Vancouver to visit the gurdwara where he worshipped. A plumber by trade, he’d been the temple’s president for four y

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