Remembering Jaswant Singh Khalra | Fresno News

This weekend, Fresno’s Punjabi Sikh community gathers at a park named after slain human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra to honor his legacy—and the thousands of victims he exposed. His fearless investigation into Punjab’s extrajudicial killings, including a Supreme Court petition over 25,000 unidentified bodies, made him a global symbol of justice. Murdered in 1995 by police who tortured and disappeared him, his story lives on: his daughter, a Fresno State alum, leads efforts to heal collective trauma as new memorials—like the first Sikh-named school in North America—emerge. A film about his life was abruptly pulled from strea...