People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Bangalore, wish to express their deepest disappointment with the principal findings of the Somashekhar Commission Report released recently, which absolves the state government and all the major right wing hindutva political parties and groups of all responsibility in the communal attacks on churches in Karnataka in 2008. The report ...
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**PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY*** What? A silent protest and vigil!!! Calling for the release of Dr Binayak Sen Part of Nationwide Protest! When and Where? 5PM to 7PM Martyr’s Day, JANUARY 30th, 2010 Town Hall, Bangalore Background? The protest in Bangalore is a part of a Nationwide protest calling for the release of Dr.Binayak Sen. Protests ...
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Proceedings of the National Consultation on Anti-Beggary Laws: Legal and Policy Perspectives. Consultation organized by Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) & Gandhian Studies Centre, NLSIU, Bangalore. Proceedings of the Consultation here ...
Dear Friends I have to inform you with a heavy heart that K.G. Kannabiran, former National President of People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), leading advocate of civil liberties and human rights and prolific writer breathed his last this evening at his home in Secundarabad. He had not been keeping well for the last few ...
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[Press Note in Kannada] Bangalore, December 29th At a protest organised at the Town Hall in Bangalore, Human Rights organisations, NGOs and the civil society came out in strong opposition to a verdict by a Raipur court that convicted Dr Binayak Sen on charges of sedition and pronounced a life sentence. The protest, held under ...
Statement in Kannada Delhi/ Raipur, 24th December, 2010 The People’s Union for Civil Liberties is deeply disappointed at the miscarriage of justice reflected in the judgement of Raipur Additional District and Sessions Judge B. P. Verma sentencing our National Vice President Dr. Binayak Sen to life imprisonment under charges of sedition 124 (A) of the ...
Tuesday, 21 December 2010 PUCL, Bangalore strongly condemns the two encounter killings by police in Bangalore, reported on the front page of The Hindu on 19th December 2010. Guarantees of individual fundamental rights form the backbone in functioning of any democracy and the role of police is to ensure preservation of the same. We, as ...