Jul 5, 2011 | Adivasis, Important Judgments, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Undemocratic Laws
Judgment delivered by the Supreme Court, in which it has struck down as ‘unconstitutional’ the practice of arming local tribal youth as special police officers (SPOs) in order to fight the Maoists. The Judgment asked the state government to immediately stop using...
Jun 24, 2011 | Adivasis, Police Firing/FIR/Charge sheet Violations, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the undemocratic and arbitrary arrest of Akhil Gogoi, RTI activist and leader of Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS). His arrest comes in the wake of police brutality and firing on people protesting their eviction from the hills and wetlands...
Jun 12, 2011 | Adivasis, Undemocratic Laws
The People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) welcomes the CPI (Maoist)’s statement following the landmark judgement of the Supreme Court on the Salwa Judum reassuring the SPOs’ that the Maoists don’t see them as enemies. The Maoists have...
Jun 5, 2011 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
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...
May 28, 2011 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
In yet another instance of the state’s harassment of civil rights activists and organizations, Gautam Navlakha long term member of the of the Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), Delhi, and for long a campaigner against state repression in Jammu and Kashmir,...
Dec 26, 2010 | Leaflets or Parchas, Undemocratic Laws
Let us strongly protest against the conviction order of the Sessions Court at Raipur sentencing Dr. Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha and Narayan Sanyal to life imprisonment, because the conviction of all three in this case is based on flimsy, unsubstantiated and fabricated...
