Apr 12, 2012 | Others, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
CONDEMN THE ATTACK ON DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS BY TMC GOONS AND KOLKATA POLICE. DROP THE FALSE CHARGES AND IMMEDIATELY RELEASE ALL ANTI-EVICTION AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. PUNISH THE GUILTY POLICEMEN AND TMC THUGS. CDRO strongly and unequivocally condemns the...
Apr 10, 2012 | Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws
PUDR strongly condemns the violent demolition of the Nonadanga slums on March 30th in Kolkata, and the subsequent police brutality on peaceful anti-eviction protests followed by the vindictive arrest of activists. Nonadanga is the area where the Kolkata Metropolitan...
Mar 30, 2012 | Adivasis, Encounters, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
JHARKHAND FACT-FINDING: 26th to 30th March 2012 A 17 member team of civil liberties and democratic rights organisations from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Manipur, UP, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Jharkhand visited 3 districts Latehar, Garhwa and Palamau from March 25th to 29th...
Mar 21, 2012 | Adivasis, Political Prisoners, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR expresses concern at the abduction of the two Italian nationals by the CPI (Maoist) in Kandamahal-Ganjam region of Orissa on March 14. However, a larger issue is raised by this act of abduction namely how even a wrong method can expose a legitimate concern of...
Mar 5, 2012 | Armed Conflict, Peasants, Land Rights and Displacement, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is outraged at the brazen claim advanced by the Indian Army that let alone sanction for prosecution, no civil administration can even register a FIR against army personnel without sanction of the Central government. During the...
