Press Statements
Implementation of NOTA Option is Compulsory
25 Oct, 2015Election Commission needs to fulfill its duty with impartiality resisting pressures Gujarat State Election Commission has announced local bodies’ elections. In this notification, they said that NOTA option will not be given. Option of NOTA was introduced in all the elections making it mandatory as a result of consistent efforts ...
We Condemn the Army Verdict of Pathribal Fake Encounter & Demand its Re-Opening and Repeal of AFSPA
01 Mar, 2014SSSC Condemns Army Verdict on Pathribal Fake Encounter: It is sad that in the world’s democracy, that army has once again overruled the CBI and the Supreme Court. The army has closed the court martial of its officers who were found guilty of fake encounter of Pathribal, J&K by CBI after which the Supreme Court of India h...
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 ...