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.
Read: Framed to Die: The Case of Stan Swamy at Framed_to_
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Immediate Prosecution of policemen for Fabrication of Case
The Additional Sessions Judge, Virender Bhat acquitted Moinuddin Dar and six other Kashmiri men on February 2 this year with the judicial finding that the men had been framed by Delhi Police personnel. The judge has directed that a FIR be lodged against four...
Press Statement on Bengal Killings
A spate of political killings in West Bengal, which in few months from now will hold state assembly elections, is a matter of deep concern for PUDR. Hitherto the media and the authorities had confined themselves to condemning killings by the CPI (Maoists) in the...
Conviction of Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha and Narayan Sanyal
People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi (PUDR) strongly protests against the conviction order of the Sessions Court at Raipur sentencing Dr. Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha and Narayan Sanyal to life imprisonment. The reason for the institution of this case by the...
Wikileaks Disclosure on Torture in J&K
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights welcomes the Wikileaks disclosure of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) briefing to US diplomats that the Indian government condoned ‘rampant use of torture’ in Jammu and Kashmir, North East and elsewhere. The scale and...
Arrest of Noor Mohammed Bhatt, another instance of State’s intolerance
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights expresses its concern at the arrest of Noor Mohammed Bhatt, lecturer of English at Gandhi Memorial College, by the J&K police on 9 December 2010 under S 13 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and S 153 of RPC for setting an...
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