Press Statements
PUCL Statement - Welcome the SC Commutation of Death sentence of Rajiv Gandhi Assassination Prisoners and setting Constitutional benchmarks on remission
18 Feb, 2014PUCL welcomes the historic and landmark ruling of the Supreme Court today (18th February, 2014) commuting to life sentence the death penalties awarded to Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan, convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. This judgment of the Supreme Court, and the 21st January, 2014 judgment in `Shatrugan Chauhan ...
Prof. Hassan Mansur Is No More
13 Feb, 2014Professor Hassan Mansur (1930 – 2014) was the doyen of the human rights movement in Karnataka. A former Professor of English in Bangalore University and a lover of the works of James Joyce, he found his calling in the human rights movement. Prof Mansur was an early forerunner of the human rights movement in Karnataka and fou...
Demand for Handing Over Remains of Afzal Guru to His Family
09 Feb, 2014Mohd. Afzal Guru was hanged secretly last year on this day i.e. 9th Feb. in Tihar jail. The Supreme Court of India in recent judgment , titled as Shatrughan Chauhan Vs. Union of India {Writ Petition (Criminal) No.55 of 2013} has commuted the death sentences of about 16 convicts to life imprisonment whose mercy petitions were recen...
Beware! Police Raj in Gujarat, Portents of An Emergency!!!
07 Feb, 2014Jameen Adhikar Andolan – Gujarat (JAAG), Ahmedabad Press Release: 7th February 2014 Beware! Police Raj in Gujarat, Portents of An Emergency!!! Permission denied to farmers/protestors to demonstrate against the Dholera SIR The leaders of Jameen Adhikar Aandolan Gujarat (JAAG), in a press statement, have said that: Gujarat has bid...
New Laws to Protect Women Bring No Hope to Victims
01 Feb, 2014New laws to protect women bring no hope to victims of sexual violence in Assam exclaimed a shocked panel of Jury members at the Public hearing on sexual violence A two day State level Public hearing on sexual violence was organized by Women in Governance [Wing-India] in Guwahati on January 8-9th, 2014. 21 cases of sexual violence ...
Jan Jagaran Yatra Reaches Delhi on 17th Day in A Mass Protest Demonstration
31 Jan, 2014Press Statement: Maruti Suzuki Workers Union -IMT Manesar, Gurgaon: 31/1/2014 Jan Jagaran Yatra Reaches Delhi on 17th Day in A Mass Protest Demonstration Sixteen days across cities, towns, villages of Haryana and through Gurgaon and Delhi, marching with our bare but united voice of anger and struggle against injustice, we organize...
PUCL Press Statement condemning the Chhattisgarh government for implicating noted Sociologist Prof. Nandini Sundar
29 Jan, 2014Press Statement People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) is greatly concerned and strongly condemns the attempt of the Chhattisgarh government to somehow implicate noted Sociologist Prof. Nandini Sundar, Head of Department of Sociology, Dellhi School of Economics and others associated with her for alleged links with banned Maoi...
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 ...