The civil rights movement in India has emerged as an autonomous voice in defense of civil liberties and democratic rights of our people. The Peoples Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, is one such organisation. It came into existence in 1977 as the Delhi unit of a larger national forum, PUCLDR, and became PUDR on 1 February, 1981.
Latest Publications
Through the Lens of National Security
On 14 May 2007, Dr. Binayak Sen, a people’s doctor and a champion of civil liberties in Chhattisgarh, was arrested in Bilaspur. The charges made out against him concerned crimes against the state spanning various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act...
Missing in Action: A Report on the Judiciary, Justice and Army Impunity in Kashmir
In a recent judgment the Supreme Court of India, in the case of Masooda Parveen versus Union of India, rejected a writ petition under Articles 32 (Right to Constitutional Remedies) and 21 (Protection of life and personal liberty) filed by the wife of one Ghulam...
Narco-Analysis as a Form of Torture and Democratic Rights
This document was prepared by PUDR on the occasion of Dr. Ramanthan Memorial Meeting, dated 15th September 2007. The dubious practice of injecting drugs such as scopolamine, sodium amytal and sodium pentothal has been practised and discarded by a number of countries...
An Invisible Crime: Investigation into Custodial Male Rape at Shakarpur Police Station
The prevalence of male custodial rape in children’s homes, police stations and jails is an incontrovertible fact. However, even the statistics compiled by institutions like the National Commission of Human Rights do not include male custodial rape. Today, a policeman...
Fettered Lives: Contract Labour in Jawaharlal Nehru University
On 15 November 2006, fifteen construction workers employed at the School for Physical Sciences (SPS) site in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were dismissed by the contractor when they protested a Rs. 5 cut in their daily wages. The post-cut Rs. 65 placed these...
Latest Press Statements
Release Anti-Displacement Activist Damodar Turi
PUDR condemns the arrest of anti-displacement activist and founder member of “Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan” (VVJVA) Damodar Turi, on February 15, 2018 at Ranchi, an hour after the “Loktantra Bachao Manch” (Save Democracy Forum) organized meeting had ended. He...
Why flag the issue? Communal politics and protests in Kathua
The joint rally by the Hindu Ekta Manch (HEM) and BJP in Kathua on 14th February 2018 demanding the release of SPO Deepak Khajuria, arrested in connection of the abduction, rape and murder of eight-year-old Asifa Bano in January 2018, has brought to the fore the...
PUDR CONDEMNS INSTITUTIONAL MURDER AND GANGRAPE OF A MINOR DALIT GIRL BY SECURITY FORCES IN KUNDULI, ODISHA: DEMANDS PROPER INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION
PUDR grieves and rages at the suicide of the young girl from Kunduli, Koraput district on 22 January 2018, who succumbed to the failure of the State to guarantee justice and to secure the freedom of its citizens. On 10 October 2017, she was stabbed and gangraped by 4...
Release Abu Bilal Kawa Immediately
PUDR demands the immediate release of Abu Bilal Kawa who was arrested on January 10, 2018 by a joint team of the Special Cell and Gujarat ATS from outside Delhi’s International Airport. The Deputy Commissioner Special Cell said that the suspect was arrested after it...
Revoke the ban on Mazdoor Sanghatan Samiti
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights condemns the ban imposed against a trade union Mazdoor Sanghatan Samiti (MSS), by the Jharkhand state government on the basis of charges of Maoist association. The Principal Home Secretary, SKG Rahate in a press conference claimed...
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Sujato Bhadra, Vice President,CRPP, Ramanadham memorial Meeting, PUDR, 13 September 2015.
Five years behind bars for five activists
