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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Lynch and Burn: Hindutva’s slaughter methods
On 18th October 2015, Zahid Ahmed Bhat succumbed to his burn injuries in New Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. Bhat, a resident of Batengoo, Anantnag district, was a nineteen year old cleaner of a truck that was set on fire on the night of 9th--10th October 2015 by a Hindu...
Continuing cases of SIMI acquittals expose the fraudulent nature of UAPA
On 30th September 2015, a local court in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, acquitted 14 persons who had been arrested on 14th June 2011 on charges of being members of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) and for holding a banned meeting in a residential house in Khandwa...
बस्तर में वकीलों, पत्रकारों पर लगातार हमले का विरोध करो
बस्तर बार एसोसिएशन द्वारा पुलिस के साथ सांठगांठ से जिस तरीके से जगदलपुर लीगल ऐड ग्रुप (जगलग) को स्थानीय आदिवासियों की कानूनी मदद करने से रोका जा रहा है, उस पर पीपल्स यूनियन फॉर डैमोक्रेटिक राइट्स गहरी चिंता व्यक्त करता है. तकनीकी अड़चन को आधार बनाकर 3 अक्टूबर को बार...
Condemn continuing attacks on lawyers and journalists in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is alarmed at the manner in which the Bastar Bar Association in tandem with the police is creating legal hurdles for the Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group from providing representation to local Adivasis who are harassed as Naxal offenders....
पीयूडीआर मानेसर औद्योगिक क्षेत्र में पुलिस द्वारा मज़दूरों पर झूठे मुकदमे करने और लगातार उनको विरोध प्रदर्शन से रोकने के प्रयास की निंदा करता है
पीयूडीआर मानेसर औद्योगिक क्षेत्र में पुलिस द्वारा मज़दूरों पर झूठे मुकदमे करने और लगातार उनको विरोध प्रदर्शन करने से रोकने के प्रयास की निंदा करता है| 26 सितम्बर 2015 को मारुति सुज़ुकी इंडिया लिमिटेड की मानेसर फैक्ट्री के गेट पर विरोध कर रहे अस्थायी मज़दूरों पर पुलिस ने...
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A “Criminal” Investigation: Death in Custody of Gurgaon P.S.
Ashok, 22 years old, belonging to the notorious Bawaria Tribe was picked up from his home by the Jahangirpuri police station on 9 February along with six other relatives, including his mother and sister Vimla. They were subjected to severe torture. Ashok and others...
ये फसल उमीदों की हमदम: मध्य भार में जनसंहार और किसान संघर्ष
स्वर्ण लिबरेशन फ्रंट के सदयों द्वारा २१ सितम्बर १९९१ को सात भूमिहीन मज़दूरों को सावनबीघा (जहानाबाद ) पकड़कर लाया गया और मार डाला गया। दो दिन बाद एक अन्य घटना में किसान संघ के सदस्यों ने सात गरीब दलितों को करकतबीघा (पटना ) में गोलियों से भून डाला। १ अक्टूबर को लगभग...
Cry the Beloved Country: Ayodhya, 6 December 1992
The Babri Masjid was demolished by kar sewaks on Sunday, 6 December. With it was shaken an image and an imagination that bound all of us together all these years. Memories of other times, of partition, revisited us and got mixed somewhat hazily with our future. The...
1984 Carnage in Delhi: A Report on the Aftermath
On 17 November, PUDR and PUCL released their report "Who are the Guilty". The report covered the role of the state, congress (I) leaders and police personnel during the 1984 carnage in New Delhi. Among other things, the report carried in an annexure the names of the...
Bitter Harvest: The Roots of Massacres in Central Bihar
From the time of the killing of 14 Dalits at Tiskhora on 19 January 1991, more than 120 persons have been killed in a year in about 24 such incidents of agrarian violence against the poorest and most oppressed sections of rural Bihar. Popularly perceived to be...
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