Citizens for Justice and Peace
Despite being an Indian citizen Shanti Basfore, who was in a detention camp, finally returns home Time8
06-Jun-2021
After being in detention camps for years as an Indian citizen, Shanti Basfore was finally able to return home. Despite having all the documents, this woman over 60 years, became an illegal citizen. Finally, after a long battle, she returned to home. After 2 years and 29 days, the old woman is able to come…
Mission continues, CJP helps Dalit woman walk out of Assam Detention Camp Shanti Basfore becomes the 41st person to be released with CJP’s help
05-Jun-2021
In April this year, CJP had brought to you the story of Shanti Basfore, a 60-year-old Dalit woman who has been languishing behind bars at the Kokrajhar detention camp since May 2019. We had met her daughter Champa who was deeply traumatised by her mother’s incarceration. But on June 4, we finally secured Shanti’s release on…
Abba, they took away Maa: CJP reunites a mother snatched away from her children in Assam Doyjan Bibi becomes the 40th person to be released from a Detention Camp with CJP’s help
31-May-2021
The voice of his son still rings sharp in his ears, “Abba they took away Maa!” Abdul Rezzak had just come back home from the market on May 7, 2019, incidentally the first day of Ramadan, to find a huge crowd outside his home. Turns out his wife Doyjan Bibi had been snatched away from…
CJP helps Bengali Hindu man get released from Assam Detention Camp The conch-shell bangle seller had spent two years behind bars
27-May-2021
On May 17, 2021, CJP helped Adhir Chandra Sarkar, a Bengali Hindu man secure conditional bail and step out of the Goalpara detention camp in Assam. Adhir, son of Jagadish Sarkar, hails from a suburban part of Bongaigaon that falls under the jurisdiction of the Merecher police station. He used to sell Shaankha or traditional bangles made…
Father in Assam detention camp, brave daughter held the fort CJP helps Joykrishna Paul secure bail and reunite with family
22-May-2021
21-year-old Monalisa, who has been working in a cloth shop to provide for her family for the last two years, is a relieved young woman today. Her father Joykrishna Paul is finally home after spending two years in the Goalpara detention camp in Assam. “What happened to us, should never happen to anyone else,” she…
Victory! Two more inmates released from Assam detention camp with CJP’s help They were languishing in the Goalpara Detention Camp for two years
05-May-2021
CJP helps two men, hailing from economically weak backgrounds, secure release on bail from Goalpara detention camp in Assam. Despite facing challenges due to Covid surge, lockdown, curfew and in the middle of heavy rainfall and an earthquake, team CJP completed all formalities to help these two men so that they can return to their…
Victory! CJP helps two more Assam detention camp inmates get released on bail One is a riot survivor and the other is the son of a nomad Baul singer
03-May-2021
On April 30, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) was able to help two men hailing from extremely economically weak backgrounds secure release on bail from the Goalpara detention camp in Assam. While Abdul Sheikh is a riot survivor whose home was burnt down during ethnic clashes in the state, Gopal Mandal never had a…
CJP reaches out to the family of Dalit woman in Assam’s detention camp CJP will continue to help more hapless citizens like her
16-Apr-2021
60 year old Shanti Basfore, who belongs to a small Dalit Community in Assam, has been jailed in the Kokrajhar Detention camp since May 2019. Even though she had all valid documents, poverty and lack of education made her fail to appear before the Foreigners’ Tribunals, when she was sent a Notice. She was then…
CJP helping a daughter secure her mother’s release from Assam detention camp The Dalit woman has been languishing behind bars after being declared foreigner in an ex parte judgment
10-Apr-2021
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), in its continuing efforts to help some of the most vulnerable and marginalized people of Assam, has now taken on a challenging new case. We are helping Champa Basfore secure the release of her mother Shanti from the Kokrajhar detention camp where she has been languishing since May 2019.…
CJP Impact: 34th person walks out of Assam Detention Camp Banesa Bibi was released on conditional bail due to CJP’s efforts
06-Feb-2021
One more person has walked out of Assam’s infamous detention camps with CJP’s assistance, taking the tally to 34. Banesa Bibi was released on conditional bail from Kokrajhar detention camp after spending 2 years and 18 days behind bars. 58-year-old Banesa Bibi is a resident of Village no. 2 Dhupguri, Lungjhar that falls under the…