Feb 12, 2013 | Communalism, Death Penalty, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the hooliganism and hostility of the Bajrang Dal as we assembled at Jantar Mantar in protest against the execution of Afzal Guru by the Indian government on 9 February 2013. This small enclosure provided by the Delhi government for all protests...
Feb 11, 2013 | Adivasis, Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Dandapani Mohanty, a social rights activist in Odisha was illegally abducted by plainclothes policemen and has been detained under cases related to incidents that occurred in 2009 and 2010. Additionally, non bailable sections of the draconian UAPA have been foisted on...
Feb 11, 2013 | Armed Conflict, Communalism, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the imposition of curfew accompanied by blanket gag on all media, including television, print and online, in the Kashmir valley following the secretive hanging of Afzal Guru. Since Saturday morning Kashmir valley has been placed under a...
Jan 5, 2013 | Armed Conflict, Custodial Rape, Gender Issues, Others, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
While PUDR understands that Indian society is deeply patriarchal, it also believes that the Indian state is primarily responsible for the sorry state of women’s rights in this country and that its actions enforce and sustain the inequality of women in the...
Dec 26, 2012 | Armed Conflict, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) welcomes the release of the study “Alleged Perpetrators” by the International Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir (IPTK) and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) on...
Dec 20, 2012 | Death Penalty, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR strongly condemns the death sentence to Mohammad Afzal as unfair and unjust and demands the commutation of his sentence. Not only does PUDR oppose capital punishment in principle as violating the right to life, as based on ‘an eye for eye’ revengeful ‘justice’;...
