Police firing in Gopalgarh
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All the eight dead bodies identified are of Meo Muslims. Of the 23 persons officially acknowledged to be injured, 19 are Meo Muslims. This preponderance of Muslims among the dead and injured is intriguing."
-- PUCL
Rajesthan investigation report, 19 Sept., 2011
Report on All India Convention against Sedition and Other Repressive Laws, April 2012
PUCL plea to commute death sentences
PUCL Tamil Nadu & Puducherry seeks the intervention of the Chief Minister and the Government of Tamil Nadu to avert the catastrophic end to the lives of Perarivalan, Murugan and Santhan..
Letter to Tamil Nadu CM | Clemency petition in Tamil
An appeal to the Parliament to repeal the Sedition Law
The colonial era law is being used by the State to suppress peaceful peoples movements and Human Rights activists. Using sedition law to silence peaceful criticism is the hallmark of an oppressive government. The Indian parliament should immediately repeal the Sedition Law.
21 June 2011
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Karnataka state complicity in violence against minorities
".... The Karavali area resembled Nazi Germany at the height of the Nazi power. Suddenly, huge battalions of youth, mainly on two wheelers but also in other vehicles which included Government Jeeps and KSRTC buses started patrolling the roads. Violence was freely indulged in, all directed against the minorities i.e. the Christians and the Muslims. Their shops, establishments and places of business were not only targeted but were indiscriminately exploited and looted. The Police Department under the supervision of S.P. Satish Kumar who was the virtual godfather of all the anti-social elements in the entire region ably supported by Inspector Jayant Shetty and a host of police officers who included Police Inspectors - Ganapathy and Shivakumar unleashed the type of violence that the region has never experienced before...." Click on this link.
-- A People's Tribunal enquiry report by Justice Michael F. Saldanha, March 2011
Retired Judge, Karnataka High Court for Karnataka PUCL and International India International
Chhittisgarh court judgement violates established judicial principles
While weaving a narrative of sedition against Binayak Sen and other accused in the case, the Sessions Court verdict violates a well laid judicial principle of the Supreme Court in matters of sedition. Read PUCL analysis | Read english tanslation of the judgement (pdf)Dr. Sen's statement in court
"I am being made an example of by the state government of Chhattisgarh as a warning to others not to expose the patent trampling of human rights taking place in the state. Documents have been fabricated by the police and false witnesses introduced in order to falsely implicate me. " Click
K.G. Kannabiran, a distinguished human rights activist and PUCL President is dead. Dec 2010
PUCL condemns attacks on Teesta Setalvad
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