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.
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Five years behind bars for five activists
Without bail, without charges being framed, without justice! Release all 15-surviving accused in the Bhima Koregaon case. June 6, 2023 will mark five years that five activists are behind bars. They include Mahesh Raut, an anti-displacement campaigner, Rona Wilson, a...
Release Gautam Navlakha Immediately! Release all political prisoners.
Today, 14 April 2023 marks four years, seven months and eighteen days since Gautam Navlakha’s arrest on 28 August 2018. A well-known human rights activist, respected journalist and writer of long standing, Gautam has now been incarcerated for three years since 14...
Continuing lynching of cattle traders cause for serious concern
When will the law take action against vigilantes operating with impunity People’s Union for Democratic Rights condemns the killing of Idris Pasha on Friday, 31st March 2023. News reports and social media posts by credible sources testify to the horrifying incident in...
Stop Criminalizing Journalism and Human Rights Activism: Release Irfan Mehraj and Parvez Khurram
PUDR strongly condemns the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Srinagar-based freelance journalist and researcher under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on 20 March 2023 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the so-called ‘NGO Terror funding...
Prosecute police personnel who admitted to custodial torture in Gujarat
On 3 October 2022, the Special Operations Group (SOG) office picked up 43 Muslim men for allegedly pelting stones at a garba event in front of a Mosque in Undhela village, Kheda, Gujarat. On 4 October 2022, the police brought the men back to their village, and some of...
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गाय गाथा – करनाल में हरियाणा गौ वंश संरक्षण एवं गौ संवर्धन अधिनियम और इसके परिणाम
जब से भारतीय जनता पार्टी की सरकार केंद्र में सत्ता में आई है तब से गौवंश के लिए सतर्कता की बढ़ती घटनाएं और गौ वध आरै गौ मांस (बीफ) बंदी से संबंधित कानूनों से छेड़छाड़ की खबरें लगातार सुर्खियां में हैं। गौ रक्षा के प्रत्यक्ष रूप से सांप्रदायिक व जातीय एजेंडा से होने वाली...
Cow Tale: Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act in Karnal and its economic and administrative fallouts
The increasing instances of cow vigilantism and legal interpolations related to beef ban and cow slaughter have been making news from the time Bhartiya Janata Party led Central Government came to power. The overtly communal and casteist agenda of cow protectionism has...
Simmering Social Impunity: A Report on incidents of Rajput intolerance to Dalit assertion in Saharanpur
On 5th May 2017, an incident of attack on Dalits by the Rajputs occurred in the village Shabbirpur, located near Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. During the attack a youth from the Rajput community died, 13 Dalits were grievously injured, more than 40 Dalit houses were...
राजनैतिक मुकदमे का घातक नतीजा – यू.ए.पी.ए. और गढ़चिरोली सत्र न्यायालय का फैसला
गढ़चिरोली सत्र न्यायालय में चले मुकदमे का फैसला, जिसमें पाँच लोगों, जी.एन.साईबाबा, महेश तिरकी, पांडू नरोटे, प्रशांत राही और हेम मिश्रा को आजीवन कारावास और विजय तिरकी को 10 साल की कैद की सज़ा सुनाई गई है, एक विचारधारा और नृशंस यू.ए.पी.ए. कानून द्वारा प्रतिबंधित संगठन के...
Political Trial Results in Pernicious Verdict: UAPA and the Gadchiroli Sessions Court judgment
The trial and conviction of six persons by the Court of Sessions Judge, Gadchiroli, sentencing GN Saibaba, Maheshi Tirki, Pandu Narote, Prashant Rahi and Hem Mishra, to life imprisonment and Vijay Tirki to ten years, is an unconcealed example of a political trial of...
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