GroundXero report, 17 June 2021. Shouting slogans of “Saare pinjron ko todenge, itihaas ki dhaara modenge” and “Inquilab Zindabad”, into the open skies and streets of Delhi, Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha, the three student activists incarcerated for over a year, finally walked out of Tihar Jail today evening. […]
The Delhi HC grants bail to student activists Devangana, Natasha and Asif in the UAPA case pertaining to the Delhi riots in February 2020. The Court observed that in the mind of the State, the “line between the constitutionally guaranteed right to protest and terrorist activity seems to be getting somewhat blurred.” The Delhi […]
Stan Swamy is an 84 year old Jesuit priest who is currently in Taloja jail. He was arrested on 8 October 2020 under UAPA in the Bhima Koregaon case. Stan has spent his entire life fighting for Adivasi rights and the rights of the underprivileged. On 14 May, Stan called up his colleague and shared that […]
The Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr. GN Saibaba organised a press conference on 10 March, 2021, at the Press Club of India in Delhi. The Press conference was addressed by writer Arundhati Roy, former Member of Rajya Sabha D Raja, General Secretary of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled […]
Every progressive voice raised in protest sounds seditious to the current Indian government – be it from within India or outside. Writes Pritha Paul. Farmers across North India have been staging protests since December 2020, based upon merely one demand to the government, repeal the new farm laws. Their demands, as well as their […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked the father and family members of a school student, who was shot dead in a ‘gun battle’ by security forces in Srinagar under the UAPA for demanding to see his dead body. Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked seven people, including the father and family […]
রাজ্যে রাজ্যে এত দেশদ্রোহী জন্ম নিল কবে? সন্দেহ নেই কবির মনোভূমিতে যেমন রামচন্দ্রের জন্ম হয়েছে, তেমনি স্বৈরশাসকের মনোভূমিতে জন্ম দেশদ্রোহীদের। আসলে, যে কোনও সরকার বিরোধী সমালোচনা, উষ্মা, মতবিরোধকে চুপ করিয়ে দিতে এই সিডিশন বা দেশদ্রোহিতার মামলাকে অস্ত্র করছে, কেন্দ্র তো বটেই বিভিন্ন রাজ্য সরকার, বিশেষভাবে বিজেপি শাসিত রাজ্য সরকারগুলি। বললেন দেবাশিস আইচ। ভারতে সাাংবাদিকতা […]
Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) strongly condemns the targeting of journalists and demands the immediate release of Mandeep Punia and the dropping of FIRs against journalists. February 1st 2021 On January 30th, Mandeep Punia, a freelance journalist who worked for The Caravan magazine and Junputh, was dragged across the police barricades at Singhu […]
Overall in 2020, in the backdrop of a pandemic ravaging the country, laws have been forced through by the BJP government to rob the livelihoods of labourers in the form of the four labour code acts and of farmers in the form of the three farm acts, and the citizenship rights of a large number […]
A group of activists working towards achieving a safer and more just society for women, wrote an open letter on 4 December 2020, to the Honourable Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, to ensure protection to the lawyers and the human rights activists, who are aiding in the process of ensuring justice to […]
Seeking justice and helping rape survivors could now be ‘anti-national’! VS Krishna, co-ordination committee member of Human Rights Forum (HRF), a civil liberties group in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, has been charged under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Sedition, Arms Act and several other charges by the Andhra Pradesh police on November 22 […]
Report of the Virtual Press Conference held on 21st October, 2020 organised by the PUCL All the civil society representatives and political leaders unequivocally condemned the Bhima-Koregaon case, attack on democracy and federalism and demanded immediate release of Stan Swamy and other activists. 21st October, 2020 Call for repeal of UAPA! Introduction On […]
Narendra Modi-led NDA government had come to power amidst a lot of hype in 2014. During these last six years, however, the country has witnessed several steps which have proved to be divisive and anti-people. From the trifurcation of the state of Jammu & Kashmir leading to unprecedented removal of statehood for the region to […]
এই চিঠিটি জেল থেকে লেখা, এবং এমন একটি সময়ে লেখা ,যখন দেশের সংবাদমাধ্যম ও রাজনৈতিক মহল উত্তাল হয়ে উঠেছিল সিপিআইএম-এর সাধারণ সম্পাদক সীতারাম ইয়েচুরির নাম দিল্লির দাঙ্গায় অভিযুক্তদের তালিকায় থাকা নিয়ে, যদিও দিল্লি পুলিশ পরে তা অস্বীকার করে। অথচ প্রাক্তন ছাত্রনেতা উমর খলিদ সহ বহু আন্দোলনকর্মীকে কিন্তু ওই একই অভিযোগে দিল্লি পুলিশ গ্রেফতার ও আটক করেছে। […]
More than a thousand members of the scientific and academic community, from universities in India as well as abroad, signed a statement expressing their concern over summoning of scientist Partha Sarthi Roy for interrogation by the NIA in the Bhima-Koregaon case. The statement reflects a deep disquiet in the scientific and academic community about the shrinking […]