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PUCL writes to Human Rights Community

Letter to the Human Rights community                                                                    … Continue Reading →

IMMEDIATE RELEASE-PUCL’s letter to Tarkunde Memorial Foundation

  20th November, 2012 To Ms. Manik Karanjawala, The Tarkunde Memorial Foundation, New Delhi.   Dear Ms. Manik, We are writing to you about the 6th Tarkunde Memorial Lecture to be addressed by Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, UIDAI on 23rd November,… Continue Reading →

Activists cast doubts over IAEA review of Rajasthan atomic power plant

JAIPUR, November 11, 2012 MOHAMMED IQBAL, The Hindu   “The inspection team must look into tritium leak at Rawatbhata earlier this year and occurrence of diseases in the plant’s vicinity”   Expressing doubts over the ongoing operational safety review by an… Continue Reading →

A doctor walks into the heart of darkness

Oct 14, 2012 – Javed Anand, in Asian Age First, if you’ve not seen it already, go find the recent issue of a national weekly which has “The Silent Killers of Chhattisgarh” as its cover story. It’s not the story that… Continue Reading →

Press Release- Release Narayan Sanyal

October 11, 2012 Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations, CDRO, condemns the  move by Jharkhand police to prevent Narayan Sanyal from coming out of  jail. Narayan Sanyal is a senior politbureau member of CPI (Maoist) who  was granted bail in all three cases against him. On 8th… Continue Reading →

INVITATION- Seema Azad and Vishwavijay – speak in JNU on 3rd September

The singer was singing And they question him Why do you sing? He answers them as they seize him Because I sing And they have searched him: In his breast only his heart In his heart only his people In… Continue Reading →

PUCL Report: Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project misleading

    The first reactor of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is being readied by the Nuclear Power  Corporation of India (NPCIL) for loading its nuclear fuel. Conducting site and offsite emergency  preparedness exercises are the legally mandatory norms that… Continue Reading →

Seema Azad, Vishwavijay step out of Allahabad Jail

    By Ajit Sahi8/7/12, Newzfirst   ALLAHABAD – Human rights activists and journalists Seema Azad and her husband, Vishwavijay, Tuesday stepped out of Allahabad‘s prison 30 months after they were arrested on February 6, 2010 on charges of being… Continue Reading →

Allahabad HC grants bail to Seema Azad, Vishvijay convicted for #sedition #goodnews

Ashish Tripathi, TNN | Aug 6, 2012, 01.45PM IST LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to journalist and civil right activistSeema Azad and her husband Vishvijay. The couple were convicted by a lower court on June 8, 2012, on charges of sedition…. Continue Reading →

How are legitimate citizens converted into public enemies?

— By Ilina Sen [ PUCL Bulletin, August 2012, www.pucl.org ] On June 26, as we remembered the clamping down of the internal Emergency on the people of the sovereign democratic republic of India 38-years ago, why is that our thoughts turn,… Continue Reading →

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