Category : State Repression

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FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT

On July 28, 2016, the Chhattisgarh Police arrested two people at the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border, and claimed recovery of a massive haul of explosives from them in the state’s Maoist-affected Bastar district. The arrested individuals were identified as Niranjan Das and Durjati Mahangkodo, both residents of Koraput district of Odisha. Senior police officers told the media […]


বহরমপুরে পুলিশি আক্রমণের জেরে খেতমজুরের মৃত্যুর নিন্দায় কিষান মোর্চা

পুলিশি আক্রমণে খেতমজুর আনারুল ইসলামের (৫৩) মৃত্যুর তীব্র নিন্দা করল সংযুক্ত কিষান মোর্চা (এসকেএম), কেন্দ্রীয় শ্রমিক সংগঠনগুলির যৌথ মঞ্চ এবং ক্ষেত্রীয় ফেডারেশন ও অ্যাসোসিয়েশন।    Groundxero| 16th February, 2024   মঙ্গলবার বহরমপুরে আইন অমান্য আন্দোলনে খেতমজুর আনারুল ইসলামের (৫৩) মৃত্যুর তীব্র নিন্দা করল সংযুক্ত কিষান মোর্চা (এসকেএম), কেন্দ্রীয় শ্রমিক সংগঠনগুলির যৌথ মঞ্চ এবং ক্ষেত্রীয় ফেডারেশন ও […]


Release Leaders of Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti

FORUM AGAINST CORPORATIZATION AND MILITARIZATION (FACAM) condemned the arrest and demands immediate release of members of Hasdeo Aranya Bachao Sangharsh Samiti (HBSS). It urges organisations to carry out demonstrations at various places of country and rally along with the people struggling against corporate loot and displacement.   By Press Release 30 December, 2023   On 21 […]


Crackdown And Repression On Palestinian Solidarity Protests In India 

Groundxero Report | 16th October, 2023   The Indian government under Narendra Modi have criminalised all opposition to Israel’s genocide campaign in Gaza and intensified crackdown against all who are coming out in solidarity with the Palestinian people and its struggle against Israel’s for their right to self-determination and independence.    Today, the Delhi police under Union Home […]


Villagers Appeal To Cancel Public Hearing of Vedanta’s Bauxite Mining in Sijimali And Kutramali, Odisha

Groundxero Report | 12th October, 2023   On 11 October, 2023,  about 80 men and women from Sijimali and Kutramali areas of Kashipur block in Odisha managed to escape security forces surrounding their villages by climbing mountains through forest routes, caught bus and train and reached Bhubaneswar, and narrated how the Rayagada police and district administration has […]



‘Your pen is mightier than the sword!’: Manish Azad

Manish Azad pens down his experience on the NIA raid and search at their home in Allahabad. Translated from Janchowk by Rajender Singh Negi, New Delhi.     On the morning of 5 September 2023, at exactly 5.30 am, a police vehicle, known as Vajrayana used in situations of riots, was seen parked in the […]


CDRO Condemn the NIA raid on activists IN UP as “criminalising of activism”.  

Groundxero : 6 September, 2023   The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 5 (Tuesday) conducted simultaneous searches at eight locations in five districts of Uttar Pradesh. They raided the residences and offices of several activists, including the residence of Seema Azad, national secretary of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and Bhagat Singh Student’s […]



Quash UAPA and other charges slapped against activists of Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti

The Campaign Against State Repression strongly condemns slapping of UAPA on activists of Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti to suppress people’s movement against corporate loot.    On 6th August 2023, the Odisha police lodged an FIR against nine people associated with the Niyamgiri Surakhya Samiti (NSS) under charges of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 and the Indian […]


Stop Criminalising Human Rights Work in Manipur : PUCL

The People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) has issued a press statement condemning the Manipur Police for registering an FIR against a three-women member fact-finding inquiry enquiry team which recently visited various parts of the ethnic violence-hit state of Manipur and reported on the ground situation in the state. The fact-finding team consisted of Annie […]


Manipur : Sedition Charge Imposed on Women Fact-Finding Team

The N. Biren Singh led BJP government in Manipur, in an attempt to suppress its dubious and partisan role in the ethnic clashes between Meities and Kukis in the state, has started criminalising efforts, opinions and views, which exposes its complicity in the violence. To suppress the truth about its complicity to be known to […]


5 Year of Bhima-Koregaon Arrest : Accused Still in Jail Without Trial

It was on this day in 2018 that five activists — Sudhir Dhawale, an activist; Surendra Gadling, a criminal lawyer practising in Nagpur; Shoma Sen, professor and Head of Department, English at Nagpur University; activists Rona Wilson and Mahesh Raut — were arrested by the Pune police  in the caste-based violence that broke out at Bhima […]


Dismantle the structures of sexual violence, NOT the protesters’ tent! – Statement by Civil Society Members

“This parliament belongs to all of us; it belongs to the women of this country, as does their right to demand justice!”   More than 1100 civil society members including activists, academics, lawyers, former civil servants, lawyers etc. have issued a statement condemning the violence unleashed by the government and Delhi police on protesting wrestlers on […]


From Deathly Silence to Violence : The journey of Wrestlers struggling for Justice

PUCL strongly condemns the brutal manner by which the Delhi Police forcibly arrested the women wrestlers today, 28th May, 2023, as they prepared to go from Jantar Mantar where they have been protesting peacefully since 23rd April, 2023, to the ‘Mahila Samman Mahapanchayat’ near the new Parliament Building. Without any sense of respect to their […]