Jun 6, 2011 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations
People’s Union for Democratic Rights welcomes the recent judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in which it has struck down as ‘unconstitutional’ the practice of arming local tribal youth as special police officers (SPOs) in order to fight the Maoists. It has asked...
Jun 5, 2011 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights strongly condemns the midnight crackdown on thousands of people staging a ‘Satyagraha’ and hunger strike at Ramlila Maidan with Baba Ramdev for demands related to corruption and black money. The attack on the protesters was...
Jun 3, 2011 | Death Penalty
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights urges the Union Government to commute the death sentence awarded to Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar as well as Mahendra Nath Das. While individual circumstances of the case would bring out mitigating factors there is an issue of...
May 28, 2011 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
In yet another instance of the state’s harassment of civil rights activists and organizations, Gautam Navlakha long term member of the of the Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), Delhi, and for long a campaigner against state repression in Jammu and Kashmir,...
May 24, 2011 | Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights, Working Class
At about 6.oo pm Dr. Sunilam, Aradhana Bhargava and several leaders and activists of the Kisan Sangharsh Samiti were viciously attacked by the goons of Adani Power Limited in Chhindwara district, MP. They were set upon on the Narsinghpur Road near Bhulamoh Gaon by...