A wave of repression has been unleashed on trade union movement through the use of laws like UAPA. In December 2017, Mazdoor Sangathan Samiti (MSS), a registered trade union, which has been working among thousands of tribal workers in Jharkhand, was banned without any satisfactory inquiry. MSS leaders Bachcha Singh, Deepak Kumar and activist Damodar […]
Throughout the day today, Central and Maharashtra Governments, together with their Telangana and Jharkhand counterparts, conducted raids at the houses of prominent activists, lawyers, writers and journalists, including Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj (National Secretary, PUCL) in Faridabad, Father Stan Swamy in Jharkhand, Senior Writer and Poet Varavara Rao, his two daughters – Anala and Pavana, ‘The […]
“Kaath ki handi baar baar nahi chadhti (Wooden cauldron can be used only once)”. This is not the first time we are witnessing high-profile conspiracies when elections are around the corner. While the faces of the “conspirators” have changed, the storyline is uncannily similar. GroundXero digs into the recent bouts of alleged death threats on […]
On June 7, 2018, under the united call of 27 organizations, a rally was organized at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, protesting the arrests of lawyer Surendra Gadling, cultural activist Sudhir Dhawale, professor Shoma Sen and activist Mahesh Rauth from Nagpur and CRPP Press Secretary Rona Wilson on June 6, 2018. Attended by activists, students, lawyers and […]
গ্রাউন্ড জিরো : প্রায় একযোগে সাতসকালে হানা দিয়ে মুম্বাই, পুনে, নাগপুর, দিল্লি থেকে আইনজীবী, অধ্যাপক, পত্রিকা সম্পাদক, দলিত ও উচ্ছেদ বিরোধী আন্দোলনের নেতা ও সক্রিয় কর্মীদের গ্রেফতার করল মহারাষ্ট্র পুলিশ। এই ঘটনার তীব্র প্রতিবাদ জানাল দেশের মানবাধিকার সংগঠনগুলি। পিপলস ইউনিয়ন ফর সিভিল লিবার্টিজ (পিইউসিএল), মহারাষ্ট্র এই গ্রেফতারকে প্রতিহিংসামূলক ও স্বৈরাচারী বলে বর্ণনা করেছে। পিপলস ইউনিয়ন […]
17th April morning was not any usual affair in the history of our democratic country. It may sound trivial to the ignorant, but for those who understand and believe in a democratic ethos well know what it means when a peoples’ lawyer is hunted. A people’s lawyer is a vanguard who protects people from the […]