Press Statements
Statement on the Arrest of Adivasi Youth at Nagrakata, Jalpaiguri
28 Jan, 2014We strongly condemn the arrest of Kiran Kalindi, Baijnath Naik, Azad Ansari & Wilson Guria from Nagrakata, Jalpaiguri on January 27, 2014. The four persons were peacefully campaigning for a bandh condemning the gruesome sexual torture and rape of the Adivasi girl at Labhpur, Birbhum. The police have arrested them with charges ...
CFD Press Release Demanding Judicial Inquiry in Pathribal Encounter
27 Jan, 2014Judicial Inquiry Demanded In Pathribal Encounter We are very much shocked and disappointed with the result of the Court Martial Inquiry relating to Pathribal encounter in which army claimed to have killed five terrorists in while the local villagers have claimed that the deceased were innocent. CBI inquired into the matter and had...
PUCL Statement on Landmark Ruling of the Supreme Court on Commutation of Death Sentence
21 Jan, 2014PUCL welcomes the landmark ruling of the Supreme Court today (21st January, 2014) authoritatively holding that inordinate delay in considering mercy or commutation petitions of death row convicts by the President of India / Governors will form a legal ground for commutation of the death sentences. The SCs judgment is historic for ...
Concerned Citizens Protest: False FIR against Teesta Setalvad
09 Jan, 2014Gujarat PUCL “You are my Enemy if you do not surrender to me” Raise your Voices against Such Tendencies We the citizens of Gujarat condemn and reject the malicious and cheap tactics used to slander the reputation and standing of Teesta Setalvad and others with fabricated allegations of misappropriation of funds. The motivated ...
PUCL Deplores Attack on AAP Office
09 Jan, 2014PUCL strongly deplores the violent attack carried out by anti-social elements yesterday i.e. on 8th January 2014 at the office of the AAP party situated at Ghaziabad. AAP party had clarified that the remarks made by Prashant Bhushan were made by him in his individual capacity and the party did not agree with the same, but strange ...
Press Statement on Shootout of a juvenile by a Chennai Police Inspector
08 Jan, 2014PUCL is shocked to know that a 14 year old boy was shot in his throat by a duty Inspector of Neelankarai Police Station, Chennai while being interrogated in connection with a theft in a temple in the same area on 7th January evening. PUCL strongly condemns the highhanded, criminal and unacceptable act of R. Pushparaj, Inspector of...
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 of British Legacy Comes to an End
01 Jan, 2014This is the time to hail the struggle, salute the martyrs and take the people’s movements forward. Today along with the ending of the year 2013 the Act of British legacy on Land Acquisition, 1894 also came to an end. It was this Act that brought in undemocratic and unjust eviction and displacement of crores of our brethren as al...
PUDR welcomes study on ‘Alleged Perpetrators’ on the culture of impunity in Jammu and Kashmir
26 Dec, 2013People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) welcomes the release of the study “Alleged Perpetrators” by the International Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-Administered Kashmir (IPTK) and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) on the culture of impunity ubiquitous in the state of Jammu a...
Facts on Issue of Eviction Notice to Non-Tribals in Attapady, Palakkad District, Kerala
14 Dec, 2013Misinformation campaign The present issue of the notice to restore the illegally occupied lands to the Adivasis in Attapady of Palakkad district in Kerala is mischievously interpreted as an ‘anti-Tamil’ action of the Kerala government. This gives another excuse to the Kerala government to deny the rights of Adivasis in general...
Challenge the Draconian Black Laws in Meghalaya
13 Dec, 2013Statement from Thma-U-Rangli-Juki (TUR), an organisation based in Shillong, Meghalaya forwarded AHRC: 10.12.2013 Thma-U-Rangli-Juki (TUR), a progressive people’s organisation, will hold a street corner meeting on the draconian Meghalaya Preventive Detention Act (MPDA), 1995 and Meghalaya Maintenance of Public Order Act (MMPO...