Oct 5, 2022 | Political Prisoners, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Altaf Ahmad Shah, a political undertrial prisoner lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail since 2017, is currently battling for his life in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML), Delhi. His cancer diagnosis, its metastasis and other organ related deterioration was done on September...
Sep 10, 2022 | Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
On 8th September Vernon Gonsalves, one of the 16 undertrials in the Bhima Koregaon case lodged in the anda cell of Taloja Central Jail, was diagnosed with dengue and likely pneumonia. Gonsalves age 65, had been suffering from fever since 30th August, but it took...
Jul 17, 2022 | Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Poster campaign. Cancel UAPA. Release the undertrial prisoners of Bhima Koregaon!
Apr 13, 2022 | Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Tomorrow, 14th April 2022 marks the completion of two years of PUDR activist Gautam Navlakha’s surrender before the NIA. One of sixteen accused in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case, Gautam has been imprisoned in Taloja Central Jail, Navi Mumbai since 25 May 2020. For...
Apr 1, 2022 | Armed Conflict, Custodial Death, Encounters, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights, PUDR, welcomes the Union Government’s decision (March 31, 2022), to significantly reduce the ambit of disturbed areas under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). According to news reports, this decision will be effective in...
Nov 5, 2021 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
The invocation of UAPA charges against members of a fact-finding team shortly after they released its findings on the communal violence in Tripura, is shocking and condemnable. Besides S. 13 of UAPA (punishment for ‘unlawful activity’), a slew of IPC offences has also...
