Mar 30, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
JHARKHAND FACT-FINDING: 26th to 30th March 2012 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...
Mar 21, 2012 | Adivasis, Political Prisoners, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR expresses concern at the abduction of the two Italian nationals by the CPI (Maoist) in Kandamahal-Ganjam region of Orissa on March 14. However, a larger issue is raised by this act of abduction namely how even a wrong method can expose a legitimate concern of...
Jan 17, 2012 | Adivasis, Custodial Death
The custodial killing of an adivasi in newly formed Sukhma District of Chattisgarh is yet another reminder of the lawlessness which prevails in Chattisgarh’s Bastar region. Reportedly, Pudiyami Mada a 26 year old adivasi died in Sukma Police Station on 13thJanuary....
Dec 29, 2011 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement
People’s Union for Democratic Rights strongly condemns the police firing, lathi-charge and arrest of peaceful protesters of the anti-dam movement in Assam in the last two days. Nearly 400 people who had been gathering at the protest site at Ranganadi in Lakhimpur town...
Dec 15, 2011 | Adivasis, Death Penalty, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR welcomes the Jharkhand High Court decision acquitting Jiten Marandi and three other adivasi poor peasants, earlier convicted and given the death sentence by District and Sessions Court, Giridih in Chilkari Firing of October 26, 2007 in the Girdih District, in...
Dec 9, 2011 | Adivasis, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is distressed at the hiatus between the sharp observations of the Supreme Court judges and their timid operative orders and judgments. If there was any doubt over this it has been laid to rest by the recent orders of the apex court...
