Police Firing

Press Statements

15 May 2012

Stop crackdown on anti-dam protestors, suspend construction and initiate cumulative impact assessment in the entire north east

PUDR strongly condemns the police action on the peaceful anti-dam protestors in Lakhimpur district of Assam on 11 May 2012. These protestors, who were sitting in the camp, are peacefully demonstrating against the upcoming big dam on river Subansiri, which is considered as the life line for the people living in the downstream areas of upper Assam. The protestors had put a blockade camp to obstruct the transportation of the construction materials to the dam site. The blockade has been organised jointly by more than 9 organisations since November 2011.

5 Mar 2012

Impunity as the Flip side of Normalcy

Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is outraged at the brazen claim advanced by the Indian Army that let alone sanction for prosecution, no civil administration can even register a FIR against army personnel without sanction of the Central government. During the hearing on CBI’s complaint against the army for shielding their personnel accused of fake encounter (following the Chattisinghpora massacre of thirty-six Sikhs on 19-20 March 2000), the Supreme Court questioned the army about it.

5 Jun 2011

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.

Report

4 Apr 2012

CDRO press statement/ interim report on State suppression of mass struggle against anti people development policies

A 17 member team of civil liberties and democratic rights organisations from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Manipur, UP, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Jharkhand visited 3 districts Latehar, Garhwa and Palamau from March 25th to 29th 2012 to investigate some recent cases of violations as well as do a follow up of some of the cases from the past. Jharkhand has been in news for both peoples’ struggle against water, forest and land grab, and operation green hunt.

30 Oct 2011

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