PUDR | A civil liberties and democratic rights organisation based in Delhi, India

Reports

Oct 30 09:30

Loot of the Land, Livelihood and Life: A joint fact finding in to incidents of crime against people in Odisha

A fact-finding committee of ten members from six rights organisations - People’s Union for Civil Liberties (Odisha), Organisation for Protection of Democratic Rights (Andhra Pradesh), Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (West Bengal), Human Rights Forum (Andhra Pradesh), Campaign for Justice and Peace (Tamilnadu), Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (Andhra Pradesh) and Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (Delhi) - visited the districts of Malkangiri, Koraput and Rayagada in South Odisha, and Sundergarh in Western Odisha for three days from 2nd to 4th May, 2011 to look into re

Press Statements

Jun 05 05:30

PUDR condemns crackdown on thousands of people staging a ‘Satyagraha’ with Baba Ramdev

5 June 2011

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 absolutely unwarranted as the ‘satyagraha’ was neither causing any law and order problems nor was it disrupting the peace of the city in any manner. Independent of the nature of the politics they may espouse, individuals and organizations have right to stage peaceful protest.