Press Statements
PUCL Condemns the Removal of the Film ‘Satluj’ from ZEE5: The Truth About Punjab’s Disappeared Cannot Be Made to Disappear Again
25 Jul, 2026Restore the film and publish the reasons for its removal. Investigate every disappearance and prosecute the guilty, without state protection for the accused. Constitute a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the Punjab disappearances. Ratify the International Convention against Enforced Disappearance. The People’s Union for Ci...
PUCL welcomes the release of Khurram Parvez and Irfan Mehraz on bail
24 Jul, 2026PUCL condemns the continuing suppression of human rights in Kashmir as well as in Ladakh using laws such as the UAPA UAPA being a law which targets the right to speech, assembly and association must be repealed. PUCL welcomes the release of Khurram Parvez and Irfan Mehraz on bail by an order of the Sessions Court subsequently uphe...
PUCL Tamil Nadu and Puducherry strongly condemns the custodial death of Sabarivarman
21 Jul, 2026Sabarivarman, a 34-year-old differently-abled youth from Eathangadu village near Thenthamaraikulam, adjacent to Samithoppu in Kanyakumari district, was running a small petty shop. Accused of selling banned tobacco-related gutkha products, he was arrested on July 9 and taken to the Nagercoil Sub-Jail under judicial custody. Prior t...
PUCL Delhi Condemns Assault on Students and Attack on Book Stall at the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Protest Site, Jantar Mantar
21 Jul, 2026The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Delhi strongly condemns the actions of the Delhi Police against students associated with the All India Students’ Federation (AISF) at the ongoing Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest site at Jantar Mantar. The incident occurred on 20 July 2026 at around 1:30 PM at a protest site ope...
PUCL condemns the attempt to suppress the peaceful satyagraha by Sonam Wangchuk and Cockroach Janata Party
19 Jul, 2026PUCL is outraged by the action of the Delhi Police in forcibly taking a fasting Sonam Wangchuk away from the site of his hunger fast in Jantar Mantar on the 21st day of his hunger strike. This unconscionable action by the Delhi Police of forcibly disrupting a peaceful Gandhian protest which sought to awaken India’s conscience, i...
PUCL Statement Concerning the Attack on Human Rights Activist and Writer, Seema Azad, PUCL National Secretary
10 Jul, 2026A 6-page statement was issued on 26th June, 2026, allegedly by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) – North Coordination Committee (NCC), claiming that Seema Azad was a State Secretary of the party and because of her “revisionist” practices, associating with a CIA agent in India, and due to her ‘prioritizing bourgeois...
PUCL deplores the deployment of Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against fair and legitimate criticism of the functioning of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma
29 Jun, 2026Contempt Proceedings against Kejriwal, AAP Leaders, and Journalist Saurav Das must be dropped! The provision of “scandalising the court” must be repealed from the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, as it relies on the colonial logic of stifling fair criticism of the judiciary! PUCL deplores the criminal contempt proceeding...
Democratization of Land & Resource Governance to protect communities engaged in subsistence customary livelihoods from rampant land grab
14 Jun, 2026The last frontiers of natural wealth of Tamil Nadu – which include its hills, forests and scrub lands, coastal waters and lands, sand dunes, salt pans and brackish water ecologies, agricultural fields, tanks, ponds, canals and other wetlands, grazing and other commons – are under severe threat from large-scale land mon...
Falsifying the Truth: PUCL Condemns the Systematic Manipulation of Census Data and the Suppression of Ground Realities in the Ongoing Census Exercise
15 Jun, 2026The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), views with the gravest alarm the revelations published in The Hindu on 3 June 2026 regarding the conduct of the ongoing Census House listing Operations (HLO) across Rajasthan and other states. The reports disclose a disturbing and unconscionable pattern: that ground-level enumer...
PUCL condemns the judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court holding that the Kamal Maula Mosque was built on a Sarasvati temple and hence possession vests exclusively with the Hindutva petitioners
08 Jun, 2026The PUCL faults the Madhya Pradesh High Court for being impervious to the spirit of fraternity and secularism which is the soul of the Constitution. PUCL demands that the Religious Places of Worship Act, 1991 be strictly followed and interpreted as a legislation enacted to uphold secularism The May, 2026 judgment of the Divisio...