Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP Helped Gangadhar To Meet His Mother After Spending 4-years In Detention Centre In Assam Sentinel Assam
17-Sep-2021
Gangadhar said that when he reached Guwahati, a person has offered him a job, food, and shelter. A 23-year old person who is a resident of West Bengal and was declared a foreigner by Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam and put him behind the bars in Goalpara detention camp finally released and met with his family.…
Bengal worker’s plight at a ‘transit camp’ in Assam The Telegraph
16-Sep-2021
Gangadhar carries with him a harrowing preview of the fate that awaits people when citizenship regimens are enforced in a country with poor documentation record Gangadhar Pramanik (left) with his mother Bharati at their Bankura home, along with officials of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), on Wednesday Telegraph picture Gangadhar Pramanik returned to his…
Saken Ali: Hell starts with an “H” Part of CJP’s Stories from Assam series
14-Sep-2021
It’s been a long arduous journey of emotional lows and highs, for CJP’s Team Assam. The sheer administrative callousness causing the hapless and marginalised to suffer a civil death and be rendered non-Indians is a bitter learning for us all. So, ever since CJP started working towards helping our fellow Indians defend their citizenship in…
डिटेन्शन कैम्प में बंद एक महिला के परिवार की तलाश का अद्भुत सफ़र सोना ख़ातून 5 साल 11 महीने 29 दिन कोकराझार डिटेंशन कैंप में क़ैद थी
08-Sep-2021
CJP की असम टीम ने सोना ख़ातून के परिवार की तलाश में क़रीब एक साल बिताए, सोना ख़ातून 5 साल 11 महीने 29 दिन असम के कोकराझार डिटेंशन कैंप में सलाखों के पीछे क़ैद थी. टीम CJP ने उन्हें डिटेंशन कैंप से छुड़ाने में मदद की. यह एक असहाय नागरिक को बचाने में मदद करने…
Seje Bala Ghosh: Freedom fighter’s daughter asked to prove that she’s Indian! Part of CJP’s Stories from Assam series
07-Aug-2021
Each case that we encounter in Assam, around the ongoing citizenship crisis, has its own human angle and a shocking twist; an administrative dis-regard for document-related discrepancies, an absence of rationality or even basic common sense. Several shocking displays, then, of sheer institutional apathy. But none shook us more than what happened to Seje Bala…
Simon Nessa: Will someone tell me how my husband died? Part of CJP’s Stories from Assam series
06-Aug-2021
The denial of citizenship is much like a civil death as the ‘right to have rights’ is arbitrarily snatched away by an unfeeling State. In our work upholding and defending the rights of our fellow Indians in Assam, we came across many instances of mysterious deaths of detention camp inmates. Seemingly healthy people, suddenly dropping…
How CJP reached out with relief and essentials in Assam To Marginalized communities who are also battling the citizenship crisis
17-Jul-2021
CJP Assam is reaching out with its humanitarian work as our work against the ‘Citizenship Crisis’ continues. Amidst the Pandemic, we are delivering groceries, essentials and medical kits to marginalized families and previously released inmates of detention camps. We are also creating awareness about Covid-19 and distributing our CJP booklets so that these people can…
Beauty and the bumbling Beast of Bureaucracy A nonagenarian is forced to defend her citizenship!
26-Jun-2021
Moyna Barman, a Koch Rajbongshi woman in her 90s, was once the village belle. So much so that people started calling her Devi meaning goddess or angel in light of her divine looks, and that’s how her name got distorted in official records. Now the unlettered woman, who belongs to a community that is seen among the…
Nearing a 100 years, woman accused of being a foreigner in Assam Watch the story of this Koch Rajbongshi Woman here
26-Jun-2021
Nonagenarian Moyna Barman is living her remaining days in anxiety and trauma, hassled by the inhuman citizenship crisis in Assam. Watch her story here. Support CJP’s work in Assam. Donate here: https://cjp.org.in/donate Related: CJP helping a daughter secure her mother’s release from Assam detention camp Abba, they took away Maa: CJP reunites a mother snatched…
Assam gov’t gets a headstart on CAA, even as protests persist Assam has resisted CAA since its inception for being antithetical to the provisions of the Assam Accord
12-Jun-2021
On March 19, Political Department, Dispur, Guwahati issued a notice directing the Commissioner of Police, Kamrup, Superintendent of Police and Foreigners Registration Officers to display on their website provisions of The Citizenship Act relating to grant of Indian citizenship to migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan at the time of granting Long Term Visa (LTV). …