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 […]
In a press meet held in Bhubaneswar on 5 April 2023, Prafulla Samantara (National Convenor, Lok Shakti Abhiyan), Prashanta Paik Ray (Spokesperson, Anti-POSCO & Anti-Jindal Movement) and Rabi Das, senior journalist strongly reiterated their earlier demand that both the government of Odisha and India must tender unconditional apology to the villagers in Dhinkia and withdraw […]
Aerial bombings have been carried out on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border. Aerial bombings, in the name of countering Maoist influence, are genocidal assaults by the state on its own citizens. CDRO firmly believes that these aerial bombings, in the name of countering Maoist influence, are genocidal assaults by the state on its own citizens. COORDINATION […]
13 December 2022 Press Release Father Stan Swamy was arrested, incarcerated, and died based on fabricated evidence, new forensic report shows. The Arsenal Consulting, an internationally renowned digital forensic firm in its recent report states that digital evidence used to arrest senior human rights defender Father Stan Swamy in the Bhima-Koregaon case was planted […]
Forum Against Corporatization And Militarization (FACAM), in a statement, issued on 9th November 2022, condemns in harshest tone, the demolition of houses and attack on villagers of Dhinkia by Corporate-State goons and extends solidarity to their heroic anti- mining struggle against Jindal Steel Work. On 22nd of October, 2022, according to villagers and activists […]
এ কথা ঠিক, আইন ও আদালত এবং কেন্দ্রীয় এজেন্সির বেড়াজালে তৃণমূল দলটি ও সরকার এখন বন্দি। কিন্তু, বিধাননগরে অনশন আন্দোলনরত চাকরি প্রার্থীদের নির্মমভাবে হঠিয়ে দিয়ে সরকার যে শ্বেতসন্ত্রাসের দৃষ্টান্ত স্থাপন করেছে—আগামি দিনে তা আরও ধারালো হবে। মোদী ভাল, শাহ দুষ্টু কিংবা আরএসএস খারাপ নয়—জপতে জপতে কখন রাজনীতির খেলা ঘুরে যাবে তা বুঝে ওঠা দুষ্কর। এই […]
Jailed under-trial leader Altaf Ahmad Shah (66) is dead. Shah was a political prisoner, that too from Kashmir. His death is yet another instance of the routine violation of the rights of political prisoners and those arrested under UAPA. The death of Mr. Shah foretells or rather underlines that such chronicles will repeat themselves unless […]
29 May marked the 23rd year of brutal atrocity by the state, in which five fisherfolk were killed in a police firing in Chilika in Odisha as the community took to direct action in dismantling illegal prawn gherries. GroundXero publishes excerpts from Chapter 6 : Chilika Teere from the book Resisting Dispossession: The Odisha Story, written by Ranjana Padhi and […]