Sep 11, 2012 | Undemocratic Laws
In India, sedition charges have been flying thick and fast, and Aseem Trivedi is only the latest of thousands of people arrested and incarcerated for sedition.For the ‘crime’ of political cartooning, Aseem Trivedi has been arrested, slapped with a number of charges,...
Sep 7, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Undemocratic Laws
This report covers incidents of Massacre by Security Forces and Salwa Judum under Operation Green Hunt, in the Bijapur and Dantewada districts of Chhattisgarh, based on three fact-finding reports conducted by CDRO between October 2009 and July 2012. The first report,...
Sep 5, 2012 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Communalism, Death Penalty, Undemocratic Laws
COORDINATION OF DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ORGANISATION (CDRO) , an association of civil rights and democratic rights organizations gives a call for a Dharna on 7th September, 2012 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to protest against escalated forms of violence and repression that...
Aug 20, 2012 | Undemocratic Laws, Working Class
PUDR is deeply concerned at the new turn in the saga of Maruti-Suzuki workers struggle against the management and owners of the company. The company has announced that it will set up a special force of security personnel comprising 100 ex-servicemen inside its...
Aug 19, 2012 | Undemocratic Laws
PUDR strongly condemns banning of Revolutionary Democratic Front (RDF), Andhra Pradesh Unit by Andhra Pradesh Government in the name of ‘Maoism’ under the draconian Andhra Pradesh Public Security Act, 1992. This is the latest instances amongst the series of repressive...
Jul 9, 2012 | Others, Undemocratic Laws
Shut the voices that do not speak for them: that is what all non-democratic regimes do. And that happens in democracies too. Or at least it happens in India which makes high claims of its democracy. Sometimes it is done through the state machinery like police and the...