2020

• Oct 2020

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  EDITORIAL: Subverting Democratic Institutions, Devaluing Democratic Values and Making Irrelevant Democratic Processes - What is the game plan?

  ARTICLES, REPORTS & DOCUMENTS

  • Subverting Judicial Institutions: from Indira, Rajiv, and Sonia Gandhi to Narendra Modi - Ravi Kiran
  • Who Is Secular? What is Secularism? - Prabhakar Sinha 

  PRESS STATEMENTS, LETTERS, AND NEWS

  • PUCL - Representation to Commissioner of Police Delhi about Motivated arrests of Anti-CAA protestors and Ignoring True perpetrators of violence
  • PUCL Statement on Supreme Court Order concerning Slum Demolition
  • PUCL Delhi Condemns Inhuman & Unlawful Demolition by Railway Authorities & Police in Delhi 
  • Activist-Politician and Arya Samaj Leader Swami Agnivesh No More
  • Champion of Human Rights, Secularism, Swami Agnivesh, passes away at 81
  • PUDR Mourns the Passing away of Swami Agnivesh
  • PUCL Maharashtra Press Release on the Report titled Broken Slates and Blank Screens: Education Under Lockdown' 
  • Over 1000 citizens tell Delhi police to Stop coercing 'confessional' statements to manufacture evidence and falsely implicating people: We the Citizens Object to the Manner of the Delhi Riots Probe 
  • Press Release: PUCL Delhi, Janhastakshep and Citizens For Democracy - Memorandum to President
  • Swami Agnivesh - A Tribute On Behalf of PUCL 

• Sep 2020

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  EDITORIAL

  Human Rights in times of the COVID pandemic

  ARTICLES, REPORTS & DOCUMENTS

  • Present Political Scenario Worse than Emergency - Ravi Kiran Jain
  • Janta Parliament: Session: Brief note on Civil Liberties: Stifling Dissent and Silencing of Democracy
  • Final Resolutions passed in the People's Parliament
  • Nationwide Condemnation of Delhi Police regarding their Interrogation of Prof. Apoorvanand

  PRESS STATEMENTS, LETTERS, AND NEWS

  • PUCL Statement on SC Holding Prashant Bhushan Guilty of Contempt of Court 
  • Statement by Prashant Bhushan, read out to the Supreme Court
  • Lawyers For Democracy: Press Statement on Prashant Bhushan Conviction for Criminal Contempt
  • Chitranjan Singh Is No More
  • Prof. Ilina Sen Is No More 
  • PUCL Statement on Kashmir, a year after Abrogation of Art. 370
  • Press Statement: PUCL Welcomes the NHRC directions to the Chhatisgarh Government
  • Statement by Dr. Apoorvanand after his interrogation by Delhi Police
  • Press Statement: Stop Criminalizing Free Speech, Protect Journalism 

• Jun 2020

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  Post Covid Lockdown Scenario – The Dark Challenges to Democracy and the Human Rights Movement in India

  ARTICLES, REPORTS & DOCUMENTS

  • After Riverfronts, comes the Season of Water Aerodromes: The Priorities of Government of Gujarat, in April-May 2020 - Covid 19 - Rohit Prajapati & Krishnakant

  PRESS STATEMENTS, LETTERS AND NEWS

  • Lift Total Lockdown and Continue only in Select Places
  • Statement on Oppose Dilution of Labour Laws!!
  • A Letter from Gautam Navlakha
  • Open letter to the People of India - Anand Teltumbde 
  • PUCL Gujarat Letter: Issues of Migrant Workers in Suratand providing relief to them
  • PUCL Maharashtra: 
    • Statement on Coronavirus and Civil Liberties
    • Statement on Communalisation of the Coronavirus
    • Pandemic and hate crimes against Muslims and other ethnic groups 
  • Notification issued by V. Suresh, National General Secretary, PUCL: Immediate suspension of PUCL - Dakshina Kannada (Mangalore) unit
  • PUCL Delhi: Press statement on the Arrests of Anti-CAA activists by Delhi Police 

• Mar 2020

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  • Presidential Speech in the PUCL NC Meeting in Allahabad: The Supreme Court abdicating its Constitutional Obligation - Ravi Kiran Jain

  ARTICLES, REPORTS & DOCUMENTS

  • CAA and Indian Citizens - N.D. Pancholi
  • Why NSA is a Draconian Law against Justice? - Prabhakar Sinha
  • In Gujarat, Tribal Evictions, State Repression in the Guise of Tourism - Rohit Prajapati 
  • Large-scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth? - Debasish Bhattacharjee
  • Bombay HC Says Peaceful CAA Protesters Cannot Be Called Traitors, Anti-National
  • 'Attempt to Cover up Police Excesses': Karnataka HC Grants Bail to Mangalore Protesters
  • The Contrasting Police Responses to a Play against CAA and Reenactment of Babri Demolition - Sukanya Shanta 
  • 'Sedition' for School Play on CAA in Bidar: Arrested Parent, Headmistress Granted Bail
  • Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police's investigation of children 

  PRESS STATEMENTS, LETTERS, AND NEWS

  • Press Release: Karnataka High Court holds Imposition of Sec 144 on Bengaluru as Illegal
  • Open Letter to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi
  • PUDR Statement: Oppose Death Penalty 

• Feb 2020

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  Press Statement: PUCL (Delhi) Condemns Violence at JNU

  ARTICLES, REPORTS & DOCUMENTS

  • Brief Report about Pro-Constitution, Pro-Democracy Protests in Chhattisgarh - Shalini Gera
  • People's Tribunal on State Action in UP: Citizenship, Democracy and Protest 
  • The Second Justice Sachar Memorial Lecture - Justice Jaspal Singh
  • Anti-CAA Protests in Chennai: The Fraud on Chennai and irony of AIADMK's Claim to Anna's Legacy - Gayatri Khandhadai
  • PUCL Karnataka: Report of the incidence of Alambadi Kavalu village, KRpet Tq, Mandya District
  • From the horse's mouth: MHA releases data on deportations and illegal immigration - Sanchita Kadam
  • Interim Report of the FFFT into Police Excesses in Mangaluru during the Anti-CAA Protests - Priyanka Kavish
  • Police Excesses in Mangaluru on December 19, 2019 

  PRESS STATEMENTS, LETTERS, AND NEWS

  • Announcement of PUCL National Council Meeting
  • PUDR Statement: 5 January Attack on JNU: An Orchestrated Conspiracy
  • AIFRTE Press Release: Brutal Attack on JNU Students and Faculty by Fascist ABVP/RSS Thugs
  • PUDR Statement: Oppose the Politics of Banning Organizations and Targeting of Rights Organizations
  • PUCL condemns strongly the Rearrest of Shahbaz Ahmed by the ATS
  • PUDR Statement: Bloody-Sunday 2019: Police Brutalities at Jamia University
  • PUDR Condemns the Passage of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019
  • Rajendra Sail is no more