Citizens for Justice and Peace
বাংলার গঙ্গাধরকে কিভাবে অসমের ডিটেনশন ক্যাম্পে আটকে রাখা হয়েছিল ডিটেনশন ক্যাম্প থেকে বাংলায় নিজের বাড়ির পৌঁছলেন গঙ্গাধর প্রামানিক
18-Oct-2021
এই বিশেষ ভিডিওতে বাংলার গঙ্গাধর প্রামাণিকের মর্মস্পর্শী কাহিনী দেখুন, যিনি আসামে একজন বিদেশি হিসেবে চিহ্নিত হয়েছিলেন এবং বাড়ি থেকে হাজার কিলোমিটার দূরে অসহায় ও একা গোয়ালপাড়া ডিটেনশন ক্যাম্পে তিন বছরেরও বেশি সময় কাটিয়েছিলেন। CJP এখন তাকে তার পরিবারের সাথে পুনর্মিলিত করেছে। আসামের ডিটেনশন ক্যাম্পে ভুগছেন, গঙ্গাধরের মতো আরও অসহায় নাগরিকেরা। তাঁদের কাছে পৌঁছাতে আমাদের সাহায্য…
It’s the need of hour to accept the NRC with some errors Niyamiya Barta
26-Apr-2021
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is the result of the non stop process of the last decade. Though it has some errors, it’s not completely wrong. Therefore, the Assam Public Works (APW) main petitioner, who filed petition regarding the updation of NRC has urged to accept the NRC which has been published under the…
In solidarity with Assam Navigating the Citizenship Crisis
12-Oct-2019
The humanitarian crisis brewing in Assam is all set to spill over across India. With a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC), an authoritarian regime threatens to split an already divided country one last time along the lines of citizenship. Recognising the ramifications of this impending catastrophe, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and People’s Union of…
Fear, loathing & dismay across ‘India-Bangladesh border’ in Bengaluru: NRC Sudipto Mondal for The Federal
04-Oct-2019
“That side of the road is Bangladesh, this side is India. We don’t go there and they don’t come here,” says Jamaal Hassan (43), sounding panicky. “The police should go after them, not us. We are Indians, it’s our birthright to live and work here.” Hassan is one of the 5,000 Bengali-speaking Muslim labourers…
Poverty haunts family of Subrata Dey Detention Camp victim's son forced to give up education, mother and widow make cloth bags to survive!
28-Sep-2019
On May 26, 2018, Subrata Dey, a Bengali Hindu, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Goalpara detention camp. Dey was the only earning member, and his family at the time depended on his income from his modest tea shop. Now, a year later, his son has been forced to drop out of school,…
Bangladeshi bogeyman myth EXPOSED in Assam! One-third of people excluded from NRC are non-Bengalis, many from indigenous tribes and ethnic groups!
17-Sep-2019
The entire debate around outsiders and foreigners has been based on the long held belief that Bangladeshi infiltrators are threatening the demography and culture of Assam. But now as per a community wise break-up of the over 19 lakh people excluded from the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), nearly a third of the people…
Assam Village Imam declared ‘foreigner’ suspects Conspiracy to drive out Muslims The Making and Re-Making of Indians as Citizens in Assam: A CJP Series
03-Sep-2018
Abdul Kadir is the Imam of the mosque in his village. He is a much loved and highly respectable member of his community. People look up to him for his wisdom and good counsel. However, now both, he and his wife Hamida Khatoon have been declared foreigners by a Foreigner’s Tribunal. Moreover, all his children…
Assam man’s wife declared ‘foreigner’, missing for 7 years! May have been 'deported' to Bangladesh
21-Aug-2018
Seven years ago, Ainal Haq’s wife was declared a ‘foreigner’ and sent to a detention camp. Then, without her family members being informed, she was allegedly deported to Bangladesh. He hasn’t heard from her in seven years! Haq has documents to prove that she was in fact an Indian. This is how families are being…
Who is an Indian, can the NRC decide? From the Secretary's Desk
02-Aug-2018
To dub the process of collating the final draft of the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC), released on July 30, as bizarre, haphazard, or just plain bureaucratic and insensate is simply not enough. The very fact that 4 million plus of residents of the state did not make the list is surely indication enough of…
A Crisis in Assam: Citizen Interrupted The Making and Re-Making of Indians as Citizens in Assam: A CJP Series
14-Jul-2018
CJP’s fact finding team in Assam has found chilling stories from Assam that point to a looming humanitarian crisis. For five long years Saken Ali found himself incarcerated in a detention camp due to a minor variation in his name in official records. In a truly Kafkaesque twist to the tale, now his family members…