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.
Remembering Stan Swamy (26 April 1937 – 5 July 2021)
The state persecuted Stan Swamy under the UAPA, a punishment that precipitated his death as an undertrial in judicial custody. Stan Swamy was framed, fettered, and finally forced towards a fatal illness under due process of law called the UAPA. The charges levelled reveal the state’s deep prejudice against an upright activist who spent decades in building and empowering Adivasi rights against historic neglect and exploitation. Stan Swamy’s persecution under the UAPA offers an understanding of how many others have been similarly punished by the state for their dissenting politics.
Prior to his incarceration, Stan Swamy’s failing health was well-known, but he was not granted even medical bail let alone regular bail. The NIA and the prison authorities refused to acknowledge the deterioration that he suffered in prison, and they failed to uphold his rights as a prisoner, a right to decent health care and facilities.
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On Justice P.N. Bhagwati’s death
PUDR remembers the significant contribution of Justice P.N. Bhagwati to the cause of furthering and protecting fundamental and democratic rights of citizens, in his death on 15 June 2017. In his years as a judge, especially through the 1980s, Justice Bhagwati along...
CDRO Statement: Condemn the Arrest of Mine Workers in Sukinda Valley in Odisha
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation strongly condemns the arrest of three mine workers Rabi Murmu, Abhimanyu Mohanto and Ramesh Majhi on June 12, 2017 on false and fabricated charges of conspiring to wage a war against the Indian state and inciting...
हरियाणा में यूनियन बनाने की सज़ा मुकदमा और जेल!
पीयूडीआर आइसीन ऑटोमोटिव हरियाणा प्राइवेट लिमिटेड कंपनी के संघर्षरत मज़दूरों के खिलाफ दर्ज मुक़दमे एवं गिरफ्तारी की निंदा करता है| पिछले कुछ महीनों से मजदूर अपनी यूनियन पंजीकृत करवाने के लिए और मैनेजमेंट से अपने काम की परिस्थितियों से सम्बंधित मांगों को लेकर संघर्षरत हैं...
CDRO Statement: ‘Rude acts of mere instinct’
Civil liberties and Democratic Rights organizations have for long argued that using Indian Army to prosecute war against our own people is to fight an ignoble war, because such wars are Dirty Wars under the very definition of Counter Insurgency warfare where our own...
PUDR Condemns Award to Major Gogoi!
PUDR strongly condemns the commendation conferred on Major Leetul Gogoi by none less than the Army Chief for taking Farooq Dar hostage, tying Dar to the front of his jeep allegedly to ward off attacking stone-pelters, and then driving around for several hours to warn...
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Hard Drive: Working Conditions at Maruti Udyog Ltd
PUDR received the information of widespread harassment of workers at the Maruti Udyog Limited (MUL) factory in Gurgaon, and sent a fact-finding team to investigate. The team met scores of workers, representatives of the management and did find evidence of systematic...
When People Organise: Forest Stuggles and Repression in Dewas
This is a report about the repression of forest struggles and organisation of Adivasi communities by the state in Dewas region of Madhya Pradesh in 2001. It begins by providing a brief description about the region, its people, and the roots of the current problems...
मृत अतः दोषी : भवानीपुर में फर्जी मुठभेड़
इस रिपोर्ट में पुलिस द्वारा पूर्वी उत्तर प्रदेश, जिला मिर्ज़ापुर के भवानीपुर गाँव में तथाकथित मुटभेड़ में 16 लोगों की हत्या की जांच करते हुए इस काण्ड में पुलिस के दोष व इन हत्याओं के बाद गाँव के लोगों पर उसके दमनकारी रव्वैये को उजागर करती है| रिपोर्ट अपनी जांच के अनुसार...
Dead. Hence Guilty: “Encounter” at Bhawanipur and its Aftermath
On 9 March, 2001, the day of holi, 16 people were killed in Bhawanipur village, under Madihan Police Station, Mirzapur district, eastern Uttar Pradesh. Bhawanipur is located at a distance of about 60 k.m. from Mirzapur city which lies on the south bank of the river...
Dead Men’s Tales: Death in Police Custody, Delhi 2000
This year there have been 9 deaths in the custody of the Delhi Police and 1 in the custody of the CBI, which we have investigated. Of the 9 deaths in police custody, 4 have been explained away as suicides and 3 have been attributed to public beating. In the remaining...
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