Dec 25, 2010 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) strongly protests against the conviction order of the Sessions Court at Raipur sentencing Dr. Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha and Narayan Sanyal to life imprisonment. The reason for the institution of this case by the...
Dec 24, 2010 | Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights welcomes the Wikileaks disclosure of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) briefing to US diplomats that the Indian government condoned ‘rampant use of torture’ in Jammu and Kashmir, North East and elsewhere. The scale and...
Nov 15, 2010 | Others, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) considers the raid and alleged recovery of “banned literature” and correspondence from Babita Pandey’s rented accommodation in New Delhi by the Andhra Pradesh State Intelligence Bureau (APSIB) to be an attempt at justifying...
Oct 22, 2010 | Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Let Delhi not go the Mumbai way: Oppose intolerance and hatred of disruptors PUDR strongly condemns the intolerance and hatred that a section of the audience, described by the media as Panum Kashmir, showed during a seminar on Kashmir held in New Delhi on October 21....
Jun 9, 2010 | Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR believes that the latest judgment on the Bhopal gas leak of 1984 is a complete farce and absolutely criminal in the gap between the enormity of the crime and the punishment meted out to the offenders, a direct reflection of the gap between the social location of...
Oct 8, 2009 | Armed Conflict, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) unequivocally condemns the gruesome killing of Inspector Francis Induwar by the Maoists in Jharkhand. PUDR has consistently maintained that neither civilians nor captives should ever be subjected to torture or to...
