Under the Rule of Law and principles of natural justice, People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) demands accountability from state agencies for the unlawful incarceration and subsequent death of Saibaba through relegation to inhuman prison conditions and callous and active neglect. People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) mourns the death of activist, teacher […]
Himanshu Kumar, a Gandhian activist, who has been for decades fighting for the rights of the Adivasis and marginalised communities, writes about the untimely death of Prof. GN Saibaba. Professor GN Saibaba of Delhi University came from a backward community in Hyderabad. As a child, he was affected by polio, which left […]
Prof Saibaba recalled his nine years of solitary prison life in the ‘anda cell’ of Nagpur jail in a first ever interview with journalists after his release from prison. A report by Harsh Thakor Former professor of English at Delhi University’s Ram Lal Anand College, Dr G.N. Saibaba, a political prisoner who was acquitted […]
Mourners booked under anti-terrorist UAPA for raising pro-Palestine, anti-Israel slogans at a Muharram procession in Srinagar on Monday. Groundxero | July 17, 2024 The Jammu & Kashmir police have arrested several Shia mourners for shouting pro-Palestine and anti-Israel slogans and raising a Palestinian flag during a Muharram procession on Monday at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. […]
Ipsa Shatakshi is the wife of Rupesh Kumar Singh, an independent journalist based in Jharkhand who has been in jail since 17 July 2022, charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for being a suspected Maoist. Rupesh Kumar has been working as a freelance journalist since 2014, reporting on state violence against Adivasi communities. […]
CASR strongly condemns the arrest of adivasi leader Sarju Tekam under UAPA and Arms Act, demands immediate withdrawal of the false cases against him and his unconditionally release. Groundxero | April 3, 2024 Chhattisgarh police on Tuesday arrested tribal leader, Sarju Tekam, for being a ‘Naxalite sympathizer’ and booked him under Unlawful Activities Prevention […]
Ever since the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided a total of eight places in Prayagraj (erstwhile Allahabad) including mine on September 5, questions like ‘why only your house was targeted … Why not ours?’ is being asked umpteen times. Let me say at the outset that the mental torture that we are going through […]
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 […]
In one of the most damaging civil rights judgments in its history, the Supreme Court ruled that mere membership of a banned organisation is sufficient to constitute a criminal offence under UAPA. Last Friday, on 24 March, 2023, in a significant verdict, a three judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices MR Shah, […]
23 December, 2022: The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan in the money laundering case slapped on him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He was accused of allegedly obtaining money from a foreign country illegally. Uttar Pradesh police had arrested Siddique Kappan on October 6, 2020, while he along […]
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 […]
CPIM has expressed time and again their opposition to the use of draconian UAPA. However, in reality, 145 cases were registered by the LDF government in Kerala between May 25, 2016-May 19, 2021. Their love for imposing UAPA has become most evident in the case of alleged Maoist leader Roopesh. COORDINATION OF DEMOCRATIC […]
মার্চ মাসের ২৯ তারিখ কলকাতা পুলিশের বিশেষ মাওবাদী দমন শাখা স্পেশাল টাস্ক ফোর্স, নদিয়ার জাগুলিয়া থেকে রাজনৈতিক কর্মী জয়িতা দাসকে গ্রেফতার করে। তাকে আদালতে পেশ করা হলে, জানা যায় স্পেশাল টাস্ক ফোর্স জয়িতার বিরুদ্ধে ইউএপিএ প্রয়োগের আবেদন রেখেছে। সিটি সেশন কোর্টের বিচারপতি ৭-ই এপ্রিল ইউএপিএ ২০০৮ আইনের ১৬/১৮/১৮বি/২০/৩৮/৩৯ ধারাগুলিতে জয়িতার বিরুদ্ধে মামলা রুজু করেন। আগামী […]
Over 50 press freedom organisations, human rights organisations and publications wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor to release Fahad Shah and other arbitrarily detained journalists to prevent further criminalization of the profession in Jammu and Kashmir. Over 50 press freedom organisations, human rights organisations and publications wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor […]
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 […]