Mar 22, 2015 | Communalism, Custodial Death, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On 22 May 1987, PAC personnel of UP reached Hashimpura, Meerut, took away about 50 Muslim men from a crowd outside a mosque, shot dead at least 42 of the men, and threw their bodies into a canal. On 21 March 2015, a Delhi Sessions Court accepted that the PAC personnel...
Mar 18, 2015 | Communalism, Gender Issues
PUDR expresses outrage at the gang-rape of a 71 year old nun by a gang of “dacoits” inside a convent in Gangnapur village, Nadia district, West Bengal on 14th March 2015. The men reportedly raided and desecrated the convent before taking away 12 lakhs.Clearly, the...
Mar 7, 2015 | Gender Issues, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights, Working Class
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, which arose to mark struggles of women workers for better working conditions and wages over a century ago, People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) expresses its solidarity with the ongoing strike of women sales...
Mar 1, 2015 | Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights, Working Class
PUDR welcomes the bail granted by the Supreme Court to Sunil s/o Satpal and Kanwaljeet Singh, two of the Maruti workers on February 23, 2015. Sunil and Kanwaljeet are among the 147 workers who were arrested in the aftermath of the violence on July 18, 2012, in the...
Feb 23, 2015 | Communalism, Others
PUDR expresses its condemnation and grief at the death of respected social activist and CPI leader, 82 year old Govind Pansare on 20 February 2015 as a result of the murderous attack on him and his wife Uma Pansare by gun carrying assailants in Kolhapur four days...