Citizens for Justice and Peace
आत्महत्या की कोशिश, डिटेन्शन कैम्प से रिहाई फ़ज़र अली की कहानी
15-Sep-2021
जब फज़र अली को अचानक पता चला कि उसे विदेश घोषित कर दिया गया है तो वह हताश होकर ब्रह्मपुत्र में कूद पड़ा. आत्महत्या के प्रयास से किसी तरह बच तो गया, मगर जेल से नहीं! फज़र अली दो साल से गोआलपाड़ा डिटेंशन कैम्प में क़ैद था. जिसे CJP की मदद से रिहाई मिली, वह…
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…
CJP helps Tripura man reunite with ailing mother The migrant labourer was declared foreigner and spent five years behind bars
27-Aug-2021
In yet another example of how sheer paranoia regarding “foreign infiltrators” has led to persecution of genuine Indian citizens in Assam, Dipak Deb, who originally hails from Tripura, was declared foreigner and was forced to spend five years behind bars in an Assam Detention Centre. But with CJP’s help, Dipak Deb was finally able to…
CJP’s perseverance pays off, Sona Khatun finally released! Walks out of Kokrajhar Detention Camp after 5 years, 11 months and 29 days
20-Aug-2021
In July this year, we brought you the story of CJP’s mammoth effort to track down the family of Sona Khatun, a woman who had been languishing behind bars for over five years at Assam’s Kokrajhar detention camp. On August 19, we were finally able to help her get released on conditional bail. Sona Khatun…
Stories of real People fighting the Citizenship Crisis in Assam Artistically designed posters describing the plight of people battling the citizenship crisis
18-Aug-2021
Watch: Behind each of these artistically designed posters is a real person, facing the very real challenge of having to prove their citizenship to a cynical State. CJP has been assisting them in every way possible, but for our efforts to reach more of those affected, we need you. Help us help Assam. Please donate…
Detention Camp: The incredible journey to find a woman’s family in Assam Team CJP's relentless efforts to help Sona Khatun find freedom and justice
17-Aug-2021
Watch: The Assam team of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) spent nearly a year looking for the family of Sona Khatun, who has been languishing behind bars in Assam’s Kokrajhar detention camp for five years. Here’s the remarkable journey of our team’s relentless efforts to help rescue a helpless citizen so that she finds…
CJP Impact: Fazar Ali sees his newborn son for the first time Suicide survivor-turned detention camp inmate is re-united with his family
10-Aug-2021
We had brought you the story of Fazar Ali, a man who attempted suicide by plunging into the Brahmaputra upon learning he had been declared foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) in Assam. In a cruel twist of fate, though he was rescued from drowning and admitted to a hospital, the police arrested him from…
CJP comes to the aid of suicide survivor-turned-detention camp inmate Fazar Ali had jumped into the Brahmaputra, and the cops arrested him from the hospital!
09-Aug-2021
The tragic story of Fazar Ali might have a happy ending. The distraught man, unable to cope with the trauma of being declared foreigner, had attempted suicide by jumping into the Brahmaputra. But though he was rescued, police nabbed him from the hospital. Now, CJP is helping him secure conditional bail in line with judgments…
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…