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The phone rang early that morning. Amarjot Singh, half asleep in his Montreal apartment, fumbled for his cell. On the line was a relative, calling from India, his voice urgent: Amarjot’s name was in the papers. India’s National Investigation Agency was after him. Amarjot was being branded a terrorist. That day in June 2023, the Indian government accused him of leading a mob of protesters who allegedly threw two grenades into the country’s high commission in Ottawa during a Sikh protest three months earlier. Amarjot was shocked. And worried. In March that year, the then thirty-year-old...