Oct 24, 2011 | Armed Conflict, Custodial Death
PUCL and PUDR organised a meeting on 22 Oct, 2011 on “Enforced Disappearances and Discovery of Mass Graves in Kashmir”. Speakers included Khurram Parvez of International Peoples Tribunal on Kashmir (IPTK) and JKCCS, Paramjeet Kaur Khalra of the Khalra Mission from...
Mar 8, 2011 | Armed Conflict, Others
PUDR condemns the killing of Niyamat Ansari in Manika PS area of Latehar district, Jharkhand by members of the CPI (Maoist) on 2 March 2011. Niyamat Ansari and his colleague Bhukan Singh have been active for over a decade raising issues of right to food and employment...
Feb 17, 2011 | Armed Conflict, Others
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) urges the CPI (Maoist) to ensure that no harm comes to V. Krishna, Collector Malkangiri district of Orissa as well as Pavitra Mohan Majhi a junior engineer taken hostage by them. We wish to also state that hostage-taking is a...
Oct 8, 2009 | Armed Conflict, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) unequivocally condemns the gruesome killing of Inspector Francis Induwar by the Maoists in Jharkhand. PUDR has consistently maintained that neither civilians nor captives should ever be subjected to torture or to...
Aug 29, 2009 | Armed Conflict, Others
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) strongly condemns the killing of four persons including a minor girl allegedly by Maoists at Bundu P.S. area in Jharkhand. It is reported in the media that the attack by Maoists was indiscriminate, with the use of a...
Sep 18, 2008 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) New Delhi 18.9.08 Letter to the Editor With Ref. to: Two Killed in Valley Clashes,The Indian Express, Sep.13, pg. 8. On 12th September two more Kashmiris were killed in firing by police and paramilitary forces in Baramullah...
