Nov 11, 2014 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
he course of democracy in India is witnessing a major turn towardsconstricting the freedom of expression. Peoples Union for Democratic Rights has time and again critiqued the use of draconian laws, of which sedition is a putrid kind, to stifle political dissent...
Nov 4, 2014 | Communalism, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) condemns the BJP government for reducing the quest for justice of the victims of anti Sikh carnage of 1984 into a cruel joke by engaging in competition for paying higher blood money to them. On the 30th year of 1984 sikh...
Sep 21, 2014 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The AP and Telangana State governments have coercively prevented the one day convention of the FORUM FOR ALTERNATIVE POLITICS in Hyderabad on 21 Sep 2014 from being held. This is a most condemnable, undemocratic and unconstitutional acts of the two governments. The...
Sep 16, 2014 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) strongly condemns the arrest and detention of rights activists in Manipur by the Manipur state government since 8 September 2014. On 8 September, the Manipur police, apart from vandalizing the office of the Joint...
Jul 18, 2014 | Death Penalty, Ramanatham Memorial Meeting: Position Papers, Undemocratic Laws
PUDR’s opposition to the penalty of death is three decades old. Like everything else our opposition to capital punishment is evolving and is a ‘work in progress’. Starting with serious objections to the arbitrariness inbuilt in awarding the Death Penalty, the fact...
Jul 11, 2014 | Communalism, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR mourns the killing of twenty eight year old Mohsin Sadiq Shaikh who was beaten to death by 30-40 members of Hindu Rashtra Sena on June 2nd in Hadaspar, Pune. Mohsin’s ‘fault’ was that he stood out as a Muslim with his skull cap and beard, which sufficed the...
