May 15, 2012 | Adivasis, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the ongoing repression by the state on the peaceful protest against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu particularly since 8 May 2012. It condemns the policy of using tactics of threat and intimidation to crush a democratic...
Apr 30, 2012 | Adivasis, Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws
PUDR condemns the Central Governments admission of its ‘arrest or kill’ policy against Naxalites, before the Standing Committee on Home Affairs by the Home Secretary, Mr. R.K. Singh on April 4, 2012. From the time, that the Prime Minister first identified ‘Left Wing...
Apr 18, 2012 | Undemocratic Laws
The Terror of Law is a CDRO (Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization) report which shows how and why the UAPA curbs the freedoms provided by Article 19 [Protection of Freedoms] for expression, assembly and association against one section of political opinion....
Apr 12, 2012 | Others, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
CONDEMN THE ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS BY TMC GOONS AND KOLKATA POLICE. DROP THE FALSE CHARGES AND IMMEDIATELY RELEASE ALL ANTI-EVICTION AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. PUNISH THE GUILTY POLICEMEN AND TMC THUGS. CDRO strongly and unequivocally condemns the...
Apr 10, 2012 | Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
PUDR strongly condemns the violent demolition of the Nonadanga slums on March 30th in Kolkata, and the subsequent police brutality on peaceful anti-eviction protests followed by the vindictive arrest of activists. Nonadanga is the area where the Kolkata Metropolitan...
Mar 31, 2012 | Adivasis, Gender Issues, Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
This report covers in detail the story of violence perpetrated against a 35-year-old tribal woman, Soni Sori, by the Chhattisgarh police and the prison authorities of the jail where she is imprisoned. The report highlights this relatively pervasive aspect of violence...
