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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Between Innocence and Death:The case of Muslim under-trials accused of anti-state activities
PUDR strongly condemns the biased nature of investigations, the shortcomings of judicial processes, and the use of anti-democratic laws, which violate the fundamental freedoms of Muslim men accused of anti-state activity. Yet another replay of the same old story was...
CDRO Statement: Resistance is Existence
Coordination of Democratic Rights Organization denounces the arrest of Khurram Parvez on the intervening night of 15-16 September at 12.30 AM from his house at Srinagar. He had returned from Delhi in the very morning of 15th September after being detained for nearly...
When Questions of Rights and Justice Become Seditious for a Democracy
The use of repressive laws, particularly the law of sedition, to silence emerging voices of rights and justice, has become a matter of routine, particularly in the present context of the Indian state facing a legitimacy crisis in Kashmir. The Bengaluru police on 15th...
The Pelletised Face of Kashmir
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is horrified that the Rajya Sabha which debated the situation in Jammu and Kashmir on August 10, could not muster resolve to call for an immediate halt to use of pellet guns, which is not used anywhere in either India or the world...
पवित्र गाय, अपवित्र शव और दलित
पीयूडीआर गुजरात में गिर सोमनाथ जिले के उना तालुका अंतर्गत मोटा समाधियाला गाँव में गौ-रक्षकों द्वारा चमार जाति के 7 लोगों के साथ मार-पीट, कपड़े उतारने और प्रदर्शन करने की घटना की कड़ी निंदा करता है। इसने हिन्दुत्व के गाय की राजनीति की ब्राह्मणवादी चरित्र तथा राज्य के...
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A Lover’s Suicide: Custodial Death in ISBT Police Chowki
This report published in 1996 is about the custodial death at the ISBT Police Station of 20-year-old Ravinder. Ravinder had arrived in Delhi on 24 February, 1996 looking for work. His parents, residents of Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh were informed at 7 pm of his death....
Custodial Death and a Weak Alibi: Mehrauli Police Station
The year had just progressed a little with a multitude of hopes and prospects; but certainly not for 19-year-old Indal, a resident of Jeevan Janata Camp, Tigri Khanpur. His death on 3rd January 1996 in the custody of Mehrauli Police Station, marked the first death...
Special Staff on Duty: Death in the Custody of North East District Police
This is a report on custodial death in the North-East police district of Delhi in the year 1995. A businessman, Dilip Chakravarty was picked up from his home by policemen in civil clothes who were acting purportedly on the basis of some information regarding...
In Memory of Mr. Gobinda Mukhoty
Gobinda Mukhoty completed graduation from Presidency College, Calcutta in 1948. In 1957 he went to the UK to study law. After completing his bar-at-law in 1964 he returned to India and started teaching at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He started practice as a lawyer...
In Memory of Dr. Ramanadham
A. Ramanadham, a medical doctor by profession, founded one of the district units of APCLC in Warangal town. Started his career as a government doctor. Dissatisfied with the unethical medical practices, he left his job and set up his own Children’s Clinic in 1968 in...
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