Jan 7, 2014 | Communalism, Gender Issues, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
उत्तर प्रदेश के मुज़फ्फरनगर, शामली, बाघपत, मेरठ, और सहारनपुर जिलों के ग्रामीण इलाकों में सितम्बर के पहले हफ़्ते में हुए दंगों के बाद से हज़ारों मुसलमान चार महीने से राहत शिविरों में रह रहे हैं | पिछले हफ़्ते से, उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने जबरन शिविर बंद करने और लोगों को वहाँ...
Jan 6, 2014 | Communalism, Gender Issues, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Following the unprecedented outbreak of riots in the rural areas of Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat, Meerut and Saharanpur districts of Uttar Pradesh in the first week of September, tens of thousands of Muslim families have been living in relief camps for the last four...
Sep 4, 2013 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) strongly condemns the arrest of Prashant Rahi and Hem Mishra, accusing them of Naxal links. Though the exact date of Hem Mishra’s arrest is yet to be ascertained, he was most probably picked up by the police...
Jul 20, 2013 | Adivasis, Encounters, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On November 14, 2012, media reported that five Maoists had been killed and one red rebel captured during an encounter between the security forces and the Sabyasachi Panda faction in the Bhaliaguda forest area of Gobindapur panchayat of Gajapati district (bordering...
Jul 3, 2013 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO) welcomes the decision of the Judicial Magistrate, Kupwara (J&K) on 18th June 2013, asking for “further investigation to unravel the identity of those who happen to be perpetrators” of mass rape which took...
Jun 6, 2013 | Custodial Death, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the death of Khalid Mujahid, an undertrial arrested in 2007 in connection with bomb blasts in UP earlier that year. Mujahid died on 19 May, 2013 when he was being escorted by a team of the Uttar Pradesh state police from a court in Faizabad to...
