The civil rights movement in India has emerged as an autonomous voice in defense of civil liberties and democratic rights of our people. The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, is one such organisation. It came into existence in 1977 as the Delhi unit of a larger national forum, PUCLDR, and became PUDR on 1 February, 1981.
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Stop Curbing Maruti Workers’ Right to Dissent
PUDR strongly condemns the strong arm tactics of the Haryana police in attempting to disrupt the 48-hour hunger strike that began yesterday, November 7, in front of the DC Office, Gurgaon. In an impressive show of solidarity and joint action, over 150 workers in jail...
Calcutta High Court Judgement and Political Prisoners
The West Bengal High Court judgement of August 2012 granting ‘political prisoner’ status to seven members of the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) clarifies and reinforces the provision of law as stipulated in West Bengal Correctional Service Act...
A developed country is not one where the poor own cars. It is one where the rich use public transport.
PUDR welcomes the October 18 Delhi High Court judgment by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Manmohan Singh on the Delhi Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. The judgement rejected a PIL filed by an NGO, Nyaya Bhoomi, that demanded the scrapping of the BRT system...
CDRO condemns arrests of poets and editors in Punjab
Ashok Garg , publisher Sangam Publictaions, Samana and poet editor Sukhwinder Swatantar, and Amit Mittar of Tarak Bharati Publication, Barnala and poet editor Jagjit Singh Sahoke arrested on 15 Sep in two simulataneous FIRS in Samana and Barnala where the two DSPs...
Arrest of the activists of Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC) in Karimnagar district of the state is yet another sign of muzzling of democratic voices of protest and erosion of the democratic space. On 27th September 2012, leading activists of APCLC...