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|Press Note| Protest Meeting in Bangalore – Binayak Sen Conviction
[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 ...
|Press Release| Binayak Sen Conviction
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 ...
|Statement| Encounter Killings in Bangalore
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 ...
Human Rights, Democracy and Media : Challenges in Contemporary Times
Human Rights’ Day 2010 was observed by the PUCL, Bangalore chapter with a discussion meeting on “Human Rights, Democracy and Media : Challenges in Contemporary Times”. We had three principal speakers to present the primary topic followed by a discussion session. Isaac Arul Selva, Editor, Slum Jagatthu, spoke of the great caste bias in the ...
Discussion Meeting| Human Rights, Democracy and Media
INVITATION !!OPEN DOOR EVENT!! PUCL-Bangalore invites you to a Discussion Meeting Human Rights, Democracy and Media Challenges in Contemporary Times 11 December 2010 @ 4:00 PM Xavier Hall, Post-Graduate Campus, St. Joseph’s College Near Double Road ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Presiding Professor Hassan Mansur Founder member – PUCL- Karnataka ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moderator Father Ambrose Pinto Principal, St Joseph’s College ...
|Statement| Communal Mob Attack in Bangalore
People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Bangalore, strongly condemns the brutal and organised mob attack on Brother Phillip Noronha by members of Jaya Karnataka Vedike, in presence and with support of inspector BN Gopalakrishna, inspector of Whitefield Police Station. Brother Phillip was kidnapped in a van, beaten up and roughed up by these vigilante elements and ...
|Sep 9| Release of the Preliminary Report on Savanur Protests
People’s Union For Civil Liberties – Bangalore ~~~~ INVITATION ~~~~~ Release of the Preliminary Report on the Savanur Protests by Justice Rajinder Sachar On the 20th of July 2010 Bhangi families engaged in manual scavenging poured human excrement on themselves as a mark of protest. They were protesting against the disconnection of their water supply ...
|Press Release| Beggar’s Colony Death of 12 inmates on the night of 17th August
PRESS RELEASE FROM PUCL-BANGALORE DEATH OF 12 INMATES ON THE NIGHT OF 17-8-2010 PUCL-Bangalore voices its gravest concern on the reported deaths of 12 inmates in Beggar’s colony on 17-8-2010 evening, to next morning and is shocked that eleven of the twelve dead were cremated before due process of enquiry could be established. PUCL-Bangalore has ...
Savanur and Manual Scavengers: Another loud cry for social justice
On July 20th Deccan Herald ran a disturbing news item. Manual scavengers from the Bhangi caste in Savanur had covered themselves with human excreta to protest their impending eviction and a denial of water by the Town Municipal Corporation (TMC). There were other similar reports in the Kannada press (both print and electronic). The back-story ...