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 […]
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 […]
State and capital has zeroed in on the rich bauxite and lime stone reserves of South Odisha now. The BJD-led state government and the BJP at the Centre are handing over dangars, mountains for meager profits to Vedanta, Adani, Dalmia Cement and Aditya Birla. The rights won through PESA and FRA after long years of […]
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 […]
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 […]
A call to the people of India for solidarity with agitating Adivasis to halt repression by Police and Company Sponsored Goons in South Odisha. 29th August, 2023 “Save Our Sacred Lands and Mountains!! Stop Their Destruction in the Name of Development!” ***** PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES Appeal In the wake […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
The Delhi police today (May 28) have forcefully detained Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia while they were trying to move towards the new Parliament building for a women’s ‘Mahapanchayat’. After the protesting wrestlers were pushed into prison buses and taken to an unknown location, the police officers began clearing the protest site by removing […]
COORDINATION OF DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS (CDRO) PRESS RELEASE 2nd May 2023 Yesterday, the country’s working-class observed May Day; today, Jharkhand witnessed yet another attack on the working class and the democratic aspirations of the people. In a fresh attack by the BJP-led Central Government, today in the early morning hours, the homes of […]
তবে কি মুসলমানদের বিরুদ্ধে হিংসা, ঘৃণা, বিদ্বেষের যে বাতাবরণ উত্তরপ্রদেশ তথা সারা দেশ জুড়ে অত্যন্ত সুপরিকল্পিত ভাবে তৈরি করা হয়েছে তারই ফলশ্রুতি এই জোড়া হত্যাকাণ্ড? তাই কি একই সঙ্গে হিন্দুত্ববাদী জঙ্গি সংগঠনের সদস্য এবং ঘোষিত অপরাধী তিন যুবক স্রেফ বাহবা পেতে, বিখ্যাত হতে এবং দাগী মুসলমানকে খুন করে ‘পুণ্য’ অর্জন করতে চেয়েছে। যে ‘পুণ্য’র ফলে […]