Sep 7, 2025 | Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On 2 September 2025, the High Court of Delhi in two separate orders dismissed pleas for bail on behalf of ten persons who stand accused by the Delhi Police of commission of terrorist acts, terror funding and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts in relation to the...
Sep 1, 2025 | Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
A five-member team from the People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi visited five villages in four districts of Punjab to investigate the issue of the use of Panchayati land by landless dalit households and the associated instances of violence and arrests....
Aug 20, 2025 | Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
16 champions of people rights have been implicated in the BK Case since 2018 They include lawyers, journalists, academics, cultural artists, a poet and a priest In 2021 Father Stan Swamy died while in jail Nine are out on bail but face stringent conditions Six...
Aug 14, 2025 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On 05 August 2025, by order of the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, 25 books were declared to be “forfeited” in terms of Section 98 BNSS, the new criminal procedure code. 5 August marks the 6th anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution...
Jul 13, 2025 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The Maharashtra Assembly has passed the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill (Mh SPSB) 2024, exactly a year after its initial tabling. Projected as a measure to curb the spread of Naxalism in urban areas, the Bill grants sweeping powers to the government to ban...
Mar 13, 2025 | Communalism, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR expresses strong reservations and condemns the coordinated raids in last week of February on bookstores by the Jammu and Kashmir police in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir. As per reports in the press about 668 books have been seized. Majority of books seized...
