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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Release of CDRO and GASS Report “Corporate Loot and People’s Resistance in Niyamgiri
On August 18, a report titled “Corporate Loot and People’s Resistance in Niyamgiri” was released at the CDRO Convention on UAPA and other Draconian Law held in Jalandhar, Punjab. The report is an outcome of a joint fact-finding visit by a 16-member team from April...
काओ विजिलांतिज़म : क्राइम, कम्युनिटी एंड लाइवलीहुड, जनवरी 2016 से मार्च 2018
15 Apr 2018 पी.यू.डी.आर. अपनी रिपोर्ट ‘काओ विजिलांतिज़म : क्राइम, कम्युनिटी एंड लाइवलीहुड, जनवरी 2016 से मार्च 2018’ जारी कर रहा है। इस रिपोर्ट में जनवरी 2016 से मार्च 2018 के बीच घटित गौ रक्षा के नाम पर गुंडागर्दी की घटनाओं का विश्लेषण है। इन गौ-गुंडागर्दी या...
Continuing Impunity: Deaths in Police Custody in Delhi, 2016-2018
The brutal truth behind deaths in police custody were commonly the result of torture of suspects, which is part of routine policing practice in India. The repetitive, almost mundane nature of accounts of custodial deaths reflected in our reports, and their similarity...
simi-notifications
Comparative tabulation of Notifications related to banning SIMI from 2001 to 2019.
Work in Progress? Labour, Capital and Democratic Rights
This is PUDR's position paper presented during the 33rd Ramandham Memorial meeting on 8th Sep 2018. The paper is based on some of the investigations carried by PUDR over the years related to globally intergrated industries in the region - such as automobile industry...
Latest Press Statements
Stop Criminalizing Journalism and Human Rights Activism: Release Irfan Mehraj and Parvez Khurram
PUDR strongly condemns the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Srinagar-based freelance journalist and researcher under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on 20 March 2023 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the so-called ‘NGO Terror funding...
Prosecute police personnel who admitted to custodial torture in Gujarat
On 3 October 2022, the Special Operations Group (SOG) office picked up 43 Muslim men for allegedly pelting stones at a garba event in front of a Mosque in Undhela village, Kheda, Gujarat. On 4 October 2022, the police brought the men back to their village, and some of...
Prosecute police personnel responsible for the custodial torture and death of Mohd. Khadeer in Medak, Telangana
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) raises grave concerns over the death of Mohd. Khadeer, a 35-year-old man in Medak district, Telangana, on 16 February 2023. He was allegedly tortured by Telangana State police at the Town Police Station, Medak and...
CONDEMN TORTURE, DEMAND ACTION
People’s Union for Democratic Rights welcomes the findings of the report submitted by the District and Sessions Judge, Faridabad into the illegal detention and brutal torture of labour rights activist, Shiv Kumar in January 2021 by the Haryana Police. Part of the...
Demand Commutation for Mohammad Arif
On November 3, 2022, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court reconfirmed its earlier decision of upholding Mohammad Arif’s death penalty. Accused in the Red Fort attack case of December 2000, Arif has, till now, spent nearly 22 years behind bars. The first seven...