In Kashmir journalists are under shadow of gun, harassment and intimidation. The recent arrest of Fahad Shah, editor of Kashmir Walla, under UAPA for posting ‘anti-national content’ on social media raises a debate about the fate of journalism in times of conflict. Shah was arrested on 4 February as he had uploaded Inayat Ahmad Mir’s family’s […]
Over 500 hundred concerned students from O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat wrote to Sajjan Jindal to engage in urgent dialogue over the human rights violations and environmental impacts arising out of JSW‘s proposed Integrated Steel Project in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. The villagers of Dhinkia Chaaridesh are fighting a battle for survival, a […]
Hundreds of people in Nagaland began a two-day protest-walk on Monday, from the state’s commercial hub Dimapur to the state capital Kohima, demanding the repeal of Armed Forces (Special Power) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) and seeking justice for the 14 civilians who were shot dead by security forces in Mon district on December 4, 2021. […]
Peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha, who for seventeen years have resisted the forceful acquisition of their land by POSCO, are once again facing brutal repression by the Odisha police. After POSCO – the South Korean steel major – was forced to withdraw from its proposed […]
Activists in West Bengal are at this point pondering over, debating and discussing the adverse impacts of the much touted mega open-cast coal mining project in Deocha-Pachami in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. While the adivasi villagers in the area are expressing their opposition to the mining project on their ancestral lands, and many […]
Farm Union observes Human Right Day at Delhi’s Tikri border. Forceful voices raised by thousands of farmers demanding release of all arrested Intellectuals and activists of democratic rights movement, immediate repeal of draconian laws like UAPA, AFSPA and abolition of the Sedition Act. 10 December, 2021, Delhi : Amidst the victory celebrations of the […]
PUCL calls for the immediate release of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who was arrested on 22nd November 2021, by the National Investigating Agency under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and Indian Penal Code. PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES (PUCL) STATEMENT ON ARREST OF KHURRAM PARVEZ 23.11.21 PUCL calls […]
Groundxero, is publishing edited excerpts, chronicling the 50 years epic journey of APDR from Nilanjan Dutta’s forthcoming book, Civil Liberties Movement in India. This is the Part 4 (concluding part) of the series focusing on issues taken up by APDR in the new millennium. With the turn of the millennium, the situation in West […]
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) is one of the oldest human rights organisations in India. APDR’s 28th central conference was scheduled to be held on 23-24 October, at Sheoraphuli, in Hooghly district of West Bengal. A few hours ago, the Hooghly district administration cancelled the conference citing Covid restrictions. Such attacks and harassment […]
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) is one of the oldest human rights organisations in India. Formed in 1972, amid the “orgy of slaughter and brutal repression” unleashed by Indian State on political activists, in the background of the Naxalbari uprising, APDR turns 50 this year. On the eve of APDR’s 28th conference […]
গণতন্ত্র ও মানুষের বেঁচে থাকার অধিকার নিয়ে প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদী সহ বিজেপি নেতারা তাঁদের ভাষণে দুটি উদাহরণ দিয়ে থাকেন। এক, ১৯৭৫ সালে তৎকালীন প্রধানমন্ত্রী ইন্দিরা গান্ধীর বলবৎ করা জরুরি অবস্থা। দুই, ইন্দিরা গান্ধীর হত্যার পর দেশজুড়ে শিখনিধন, বিশেষ করে দিল্লিতে। কিন্তু বিগত সাত বছর ধরে দেশের অভ্যন্তরে যে পুলিশি রাজ চলছে তা কি অঘোষিত জরুরি […]
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) is one of the oldest human rights organisations in India. Formed in 1972, amid the “orgy of slaughter and brutal repression” unleashed by the Indian State on political activists, in the background of the Naxalbari uprising, APDR turns 50 this year. 25 June 1972 — when the […]
While the people of the state are busy celebrating Durga Puja festival, on 12 October, Wednesday, the West Bengal police, in a midnight raid, stormed the house of Tipu Sultan, alias Mustafa Kamal, a former student of Visva-Bharati and a left-political activist, and whisked him away from his residence in Gurupally, Santiniketan in Birbhum district. […]
Groundxero | News Report 10 September, 2021 Eight years after security personnel had gunned down eight adivasis, including 4 minors, in an encounter in Edesmetta, a remote forest village in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, a judicial inquiry report into the incident, submitted to the state government on Wednesday, concluded that none of those killed […]
The Network of Women in Media, India stands in solidarity with journalists and all other beleaguered civilians in Afghanistan, especially women, as the situation rapidly deteriorates amidst the Taliban take-over of the country. AUGUST 17, 2021 The Network of Women in Media, India stands in solidarity with journalists and all other beleaguered civilians in […]