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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The question of justice: convictions in 1984 riots
On November 20, 2018, a Delhi Sessions Court awarded death penalty to Yashpal Singh and life imprisonment to Naresh Kumar for their role in murder and arson in Mahipalpur on November 1, 1984 which caused the death of two persons and injuries to three others. A week...
Condemning the Continuing Violence by CPI (Maoist) in the Name of Election Boycot
People’s Union for Democratic Rights condemns series of incidents triggered by members of CPI(Maoist) in Bastar Sambhag (region) of Chhattisgarh in just over a fortnight. November 8: Four civilians and one CISF Head constable were killed when an IED (improvised...
Attacks on migrants in Gujarat – denial of right to life and livelihood. PUDR demands arrest, prosecution of attackers.
PUDR strongly condemns the attacks on migrants from Bihar, UP and Madhya Pradesh, who are being forced to flee from Gujarat as a result of violence unleashed by the Thakor community. About 50,000 Hindi speaking migrants have left Gujarat and returned to their native...
On the release of our long-standing member Gautam Navlakha
On 1st October, the Delhi High Court set aside the Order of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Saket Courts passed on 28th August granting transit remand to Pune police against Gautam Navlakha in the one of the FIRs booked in connection to the Bhima Koregaon incident....
On the Supreme Court’s Verdict on the Arrest of 5 Activists under the UAPA
PUDR welcomes the Supreme Court’s order on the petition filed by Prof. Romila Thapar and others for extending protection from custody to the five activists- Gautam Navlakha, Varavara Rao, Vernon Gonsalves, Sudha Bhardwaj and Arun Ferreira- arrested a month ago by the...
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Chintalnar Massacre Report
Report of a 13-member fact-finding team of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations who visited the Chintalnar Area of Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh to probe into the incidents of atrocities perpetrated by the Salwa Judum and the state forces on the...
खेल खतम पैसा हज़म
राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल के निर्माण कार्य में मजदुरों के शोषण की कहानी पर एक रिपोर्ट. To download the report, click below: खेल खतम पैसा...
Of Human Bondage: An Account of Hostage Taking in Bastar
An event of great political and historical significance occurred on 11 February 2011 inside the dense forests of Abujhmad in Chhattisgarh with the CPI (Maoist) releasing five policemen of the Chhattisgarh police force, abducted by them on 25 January 2011, before a...
Condemn the Unfair Trial and Conviction of Dr. Binayak Sen and Others
Let us strongly protest against the conviction order of the Sessions Court at Raipur sentencing Dr. Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha and Narayan Sanyal to life imprisonment, because the conviction of all three in this case is based on flimsy, unsubstantiated and fabricated...
Faking An Encounter: Killing the Peace Process (CDRO Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey)
This report was released by the CDRO investigation team in Delhi on 8th October 2010 after a fact-finding of the so-called encounter place and also meeting the local villagers, local police and local media personnel and after pursuing the FIR, inquest and postmortem...
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