Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP Assam: Three more inmates released from detention camps CJP will continue to help every Indian who are spending their days in the detention camp
13-May-2020
In yet another moment of victory, CJP team in Assam has helped secure the release of three more inmates living in detention camps. For years, the detainees had been languishing in the many detention camps around Assam. On May 11th, they were released from the camps, after persistent efforts by CJP team over the past…
Victory! Three more detention camp inmates released in Assam with CJP’s help All three Bengali Hindu detainees hail from extremely impoverished backgrounds, one of them is homeless
12-May-2020
Ever since two Supreme Court orders, dated May 2019 and April 2020, made it possible for inmates of detention camps get conditional bail, CJP has been trying to help secure their release. 21 people had already come out due to the efforts of CJP, and on Monday, May 11 we were able to add three…
Assam detention camps : CJP strives to release and rehabilitate innocent citizens CJP helps release Zubeida Khatoon, a helpless woman who spent five years in detention camp
06-May-2020
48-year-old Zubeida Khatoon from Manipurtup village, who was coming to terms with her husband’s death when the police picked her up and produced her before a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT). The FT rejected the documents she submitted and sent her to the Jorhat detention camp, where she spent five years, leaving behind her then seven year…
असम: CJP ने डिटेंशन कैंपों से 9 कैदियों को दिलाई आजादी असम एनआरसी से बाहर हुए लोगों की मदद के लिए CJP लगातार प्रयत्नशील है
05-May-2020
CJP ने राज्य के विभिन्न डिटेंशन कैंपों में बंद 9 लोगों को रिहा कराया। ये लोग अपने परिवार से मिलने की आशा में बहुत खुश हुए, यह CJP की एक बड़ी उपलब्धि है। असम की मदद करने मे हमारा साथ दीजिए। अधिक जानने के लिए यह वीडियो देखें। Related: CJP steps in to defend citizenship…
CJP locates ‘untraceable’ Assam detention camp inmate, helps her get bail Zubeida Khatoon had lost all hope after being forced to spend more than five years in captivity
01-May-2020
48-year-old Zubeida Khatoon was just about coming to terms with her husband’s death when the police picked her up and produced her before a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT). When the FT rejected the documents she submitted and sent her to a detention camp, Zubeida didn’t expect anyone to help her out of her misery. She only…
Watch: Inside detention camp for 3 years; CJP intervenes CJP is committed to help genuine Indian citizens facing the citizenship crisis
20-Apr-2020
Lalit Thakur, a barber by profession, has been jailed in the Goalpara detention camp of Assam, since October 2016. His identity documents were burnt in the ethnic- communal clashes between indigenous Bodos and Bengali speaking people of Assam in 2012. He went on to live in a relief camp with his family after the clashes.…
CJP helps release two brothers from Assam detention camp CJP's Assam team battled legal formalities for four months to help release the brothers.
03-Mar-2020
CJP has helped secure the release of two brothers from Assam’s detention camp. Samsul Ali and Abdur Rashid had been in the Goalpara detention camp for three years. In July 2019, the Supreme Court ruled that people who are in detention camps for three years or more would be freed on bail. But their path to…
Assam NRC: Detention Camp cuts food ration CJP Assam is working with the families of the detainees to help release them at the earliest
17-Feb-2020
On May 2109, the Supreme Court of India ordered the release of detainees who have spent more than three years in captivity inside detention camps in Assam. But more than half of the detainees have still not been released due to the absence of competent representation. The Home Department of Assam has rejected a large…
NRC Assam: Detention Camps cut food ration for detainees of over three years CJP helps those in detention camps for over 3 years to secure release even as a hostile administration denies them fair nutrition
13-Feb-2020
People who have been in Assam’s detention camps for over three years were given some relief in May 2019 when the Supreme Court directed that those who have spent more than three years in captivity be set free subject to certain conditions which included personal bond of Rs 1,00,000. This was during the course of…
Detention Camp survivor’s family pleads that they be spared further misery Sahera Khatun was released from Kokrajhar detention camp as per Supreme Court’s May 2019 order
11-Dec-2019
CJP has been working tirelessly to provide legal aid to those defending their citizenship in Assam. In November we brought to you the story of Sahera Khatun of Satibar Gaon in Chirang District, who spent 3 years and 3 months at the Kokrajhar detention camp after being declared ‘foreigner’ a Foreigners Tribunal in Chirang. Now…