Press Statement | Sedition Charges Against Amnesty International
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Press Statement – PUCL Bangalore | Violence in Kashmir
Dated: August 5, 2016 Press Statement of People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Bangalore Chapter Violence in Kashmir Since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani on 8 July 8 2016 by Indian armed forces, the Kashmir Valley has entered another and heightened phase of a war-like conflict. The people of Kashmir who wanted ...
*Preliminary* Fact Finding Report – Bangalore Garment Workers’ Protest Demonstration:
Read the COMPLETE PRELIMINARY REPORT HERE On the two days of April 18th and 19th, 2016, workers of the garment industry, predominantly women, took to the streets in a sudden unplanned demonstration to protest the new ordinance on the Employment Provident Fund by the Central Government. The angst among garment workers was triggered by a ...
Schooled into Hindu Rashtra – Interim Fact Finding Report
Click HERE to read the full report For the last couple of years, newspaper reports have appeared about a large number of children from the North-Eastern states of Meghalaya and Manipur being transported to the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It is revealed that this migration of children is the initiative ...
|Human Rights Day| Challenges Facing the Left: Remembering Praful Bidwai
Praful’s death on 23 June 2015 was met with widely felt shock in South Asia and elsewhere as his courageous journalism, environmental activism and anti-nuclear as well as anti-communal activism and had won him vast numbers of admirers across the subcontinent and the globe. His latest book, The Phoenix Moment, investigates whether the Left’s core ...
Permanent Suspects
A fact finding report into the arrest of Muslim Youth in Bangalore. Published in 2013. Full report available for download @ : http://puclkarnataka.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Terrorism-and-Muslim-Youth.pdf ...
35th JP Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
35th JP Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, March 23 2015 For a full transcript Click Here ...
Press Release – Custodial Death of Mubarak Pasha
People’s Union for Civil Liberties strongly condemns the custodial death of Mubarak Pasha under mysterious circumstances in Central Prison in Bangalore, as reported in the media on 1 Sept 2014. The shameful incident reflects poorly on the entire police and security force of Bangalore – the appointed custodians for citizens’ safety with responsibility to ensure ...
Press Release – Amendments to the Goonda’s Act
PUCL Karnataka is shocked and strongly opposes the recent amendment to the Draconian Goondas Act passed by the Karnataka Assembly, which impinges on civil liberties and undermines constitutionally mandated guarantees of fundamental rights and freedom of expression for all citizens. The State has egregiously grabbed wide and arbitrary powers, increasing enormously the scope of potential abuse, by ...
Locking Out Workers – Fact Finding Report
A Citizens’ Fact-finding Report on the Lockout and Subsequent Events at Stump, Schuele, and Somappa Springs Private Limited, Hosur Road, Bangalore, 2014 Read / Download the full report here Stumpp, Schuele and Somappa Springs Private Limited (hereinafter SSSPL) is, arguably, the leading manufacturer of springs for cars, two-wheelers and commercial vehicles, for clients like Maruthi Udyog, Tata, ...