PEOPLE’S UNION FOR DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS 13 April 2022 When the Process becomes the Punishment 14th April 2022 marks the completion of two years of PUDR activist Gautam Navlakha’s surrender before the NIA. One of sixteen accused in the infamous Bhima Koregaon case, Gautam has been imprisoned in Taloja Central Jail, Navi Mumbai since […]
Gautam Navlakha, nearly 70, is one of the oldest of the Bhima Koregaon arrestees. Sahba Husain, Gautam Navlakha’s partner, in an open letter, expresses her concern over his recent shift to the Anda Cell in Taloja jail, and discontinuation of phone calls to family members and lawyers, severely affecting his already fragile health and legal […]
A documentation of the custodial deaths during lockdown that also looks for the answer to some such questions around the class nature, caste nature and religious nature of such deaths. This is the fifth and last part of the Groundxero report. The Thoothukudi murders have once again drawn our attention to custodial and other forms […]
The Supreme Court of India recently rejected the bail application of Gautam Nawlakha and Anand Teltumbde and asked them to surrender to the state authorities by 14th April. With their arrest today, the Indian state will silence two more voices that dared to speak out against its excesses. The two will join the nine other […]
A statement released by CASR appealing citizens to condemn the Supreme Court’s denial of relief from arrest for Prof. Anand Teltumbde and Gautam Navlakha and stand in solidarity with all voices for peoples’ rights and democracy. April 8th 2020 On March 16th 2020, the Supreme Court of India rejected the anticipatory bail […]
The dictum of ‘natural justice’ that not a single innocent should be punished – is vanishing into thin air in gathering gales of fascism. Professor GN Saibaba is fighting death languishing in a dark and dingy cell, unable to procure legitimate medical requirements. Thousands of Adivasis are rotting behind the high walls of prison. While […]
Mumbai Rises to Save Democracy (MRSD) press release condemns the continuous hounding of the human rights activists, people lawyers, trade unionists and other voices of dissent by the Indian state and use of draconian law like UAPA to imprison them for years without bail. The press statement also highlights the failure of the Maharashtra government […]