Press Statements
Racial Tagging and the Mysterious Death of Reingamphi Awungsi
01 Sep, 2013Notwithstanding extreme summer heat, many from the Northeast residing in Delhi had taken onto the street, and spent at least 24 hours at the Malvia Nagar Police Station protesting ‘racial tagging’ after death of a migrant ‘worker’ Miss Reingamphi Awungshi and demanding justice. Miss Reingamphi Awungshi (26) (15-07- 1987 to...
Press Release by Toxics Watch Alliance (TWA), and Khet Bachao Jeevan Bachao Jan Sangharsh Committee (KBJBJC), Vaishali
01 Mar, 2013Bihar Chief Minister promises to ‘puncture’ construction of asbestos factories Chief Minister’s environment friendly intervention welcomed Memorandum demands stoppage of asbestos factory and withdrawal of fake cases Patna/New Delhi February 14, 2013: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met the leaders of ban asbestos movement ...
Is India on the Path to become a Land of Serial Executions?
01 Mar, 2013The PUCL strongly condemns the rejection by the President of India of the commutation petitions of Simon, Meesakara Mathayan, Bilavendran and Gnanaprakasam. Equally condemnable is the action of the Prison Authorities of Belgaum Central Prison, Karnataka who in the morning of 13.2.2013 merely intimated orally to the convicts of the...
Judicial Delays in Rape Cases
01 Mar, 2013Colonial era sedition law contained in section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code makes creating hatred or contempt for or disaffection towards the government established by Law in India, an act of sedition punishable with imprisonment for life, whether such disaffection, hatred or contempt is created by words spoken or written or by ...
PUCL Statement on the Hanging of Afzal Guru
09 Feb, 2013The PUCL condemns the hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail early in the morning (9.2.2013) today. The tearing hurry, with which Afzal Guru was hanged, accompanied by the flouting of all established norms by not giving his family their legal right to meet him before taking him to the gallows, clearly indicates that there were politi...
RTI activist who took on cops injected with poison: Condition critical
01 Feb, 2013PUCL-Andhra Pradesh urged the immediate intervention of the National Human Rights Commission, Supreme Court, AP State Human Rights Commission, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and state Chief Minister Mr N Kiran Kumar Reddy in the incident of an RTI activist, Mr. Srinivasa Rao, who took on cops and was injected with poison and hi...
Immediately stop the brutal police assault on peaceful protesters opposing POSCO project in Odisha
01 Feb, 2013Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti about brutal police assault on villagers who were peacefully protesting against forcible acquisition of their lands. The 12 platoon strong mobilisation that culminated in the assault started around midnight and the p...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay Applauds Indian Movement to Eradicate ‘Manual Scavenging’
31 Jan, 2013GENEVA (31 January 2013) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today welcomed the strong movement that has been developing over the past few months in India to eradicate the practice known as ‘manual scavenging’ which, because of the stigma attached to it, has traditionally been carried out by Dalit wom...
Joint Statement: Issued on behalf of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and Citizens for Democracy (CFD)
30 Jan, 2013Police Action against Ashis Nandy Condemned We deprecate strongly the police action being taken against Ashis Nandy. The accusation that Nandy has made derogatory casteist remarks against dalits and OBCs are utterly baseless. Ashis Nandy has been longstanding friend and guide of the OBC and dalit cause and his record for such depr...
Tell the Nation the Truth on the KKNPP
28 Jan, 2013Angered by moral and political corruption, disturbing developments and the overall mismanagement of the body politic, Marcellus tells Horatio in utter disgust and disappointment in Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” We, the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, who have been fighting...