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.
“Close to the one-year anniversary of violence in Nuh district, Haryana, PUDR released its report on ongoing state repression in the aftermath of July 31, 2023. Justice Madan Lokur (retd., Supreme Court) and Professor Manoranjan Mohanty (retd., Delhi University) launched “In the wake of Nuh: A report on state repression” on July 29, 2024 at Press Club of India.
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On Banning CPI (Maoist) by Center
In 2004, when the Congress led UPA government came to power it repealed the POTA, which it admitted had been grossly misused. It simultaneously amended an existing law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967 (UAPA), siphoning into it some of extraordinary...
Press release on Police atrocities, illegal detention and blatant use of seditious case in Haryana
A six member team of two human rights organisations, PUDR (Delhi) and PUCR (Haryana) undertook a fact finding on May 22, 2009 and June 1, 2009 to investigate state repression of individuals, arrest and crackdown on organisations such as Shivalik Jan Sangharsh Manch,...
PUDR statement on Shopian incident in Kashmir
The rape and murder of Asiya Jan and Neelofer Jan by members of the CRPF in Shopian, Kashmir and the subsequent dumping of their bodies in a stream is a horrific crime by any measure, in any society. When the crime is committed by state forces in a situation of armed...
PUDR Welcomes Supreme Court Decision to Grant Bail to Dr.Binayak Sen
PUDR welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision to grant bail to Dr. Binayak Sen in the case that resulted in the noted civil rights activist being confined for over two years in Raipur jail on charges of sedition and participation in ‘unlawful activities’ levelled by the...
Press Statement condemning on Home Minister’s views that Naxals are Bandits.
The views expressed by the Home minister, Mr. P Chidambaram, “Naxals not motivated by ideology, they’re bandits” (Times of India, 18.4.09) reveals a regressive security perspective of a mass movement mobilised by the Naxal movement. That the roots of the Naxal...