Citizens for Justice and Peace
असम में नागरिकता पे सवाल और भूखमरी CJP टीम की प्रेरक लड़ाई
03-May-2020
देखिये असम के छह जिलों के युवा अभिप्रेरकों और CJP टीम असम के स्टेट कोऑर्डिनेटर Zamser Ali के साथ CJP सेक्रेटरी Teesta Setalvad की राउंड टेबल बैठक। Related: Victory! CJP helps secure release of 9 Detention Camp inmates in Assam The night Parbati came home CJP against Hunger: Team Assam goes that extra mile to…
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…
CJP Impact: Family of three released from Assam detention camp after four years! CJP continues to help release Indians living in detention camps
25-Mar-2020
For the last four years, Jainuddin, Hajira Bibi, and Kamal Ali have been in the Tezpur Detention Camp. The three detainees were husband, wife and son. Being extremely poor, they could not afford a bail application. CJP team in Assam fought long and hard to help them get released. Although the Supreme Court ruled in…
CJP in Action: Three of a family released from Assam detention camp after four years! Many are still languishing behind bars despite being eligible for bail
20-Mar-2020
Three people of a family; father, mother and son, were finally released from the Tezpur detention camp in Assam after CJP intervened in the case. They had been held in captivity for over four years and were unable to satisfy bail conditions despite being eligible for release. CJP’s Team Assam has been working relentlessly to…
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…
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…
Ambiguous guidelines for ‘model’ detention camps raise questions MHA responses in Parliament divulge limited information
28-Nov-2019
The Modi government had released ‘model’ detention centre a manual in January 2019 containing provisions that would govern the functioning of such facilities across India. Though the manual has not been made public, some information has become available via answers to questions raised in the Parliament. With the death toll in Assam’s detention camps touching 28,…
Assam man forced to rot in Detention Camp for over 3 years Migrant labourer declared ‘foreigner’ for going to Delhi in search of a job!
26-Nov-2019
63-year-old Majibur Rahman has just been released from a detention camp in Assam. But the poor man is still clueless as to why he was sent there in the first place. “My grandfather’s name was included in the 1951 NRC. But I was served notice for being a D-Voter and then declared a ‘foreigner’ by…
Bengali speaking workers face likely ban in Bengaluru apartments, what’s next? Most of these workers have been living in the city doing menial jobs for decades, after migrating from their home states
11-Nov-2019
Anticipating police action and interrogation, many housing complexes in Bengaluru have decided to not employ Bengali speaking people as labourers or domestic help, especially minorities. In this quest of weeding out illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, many citizens have also been targeted which has led to this prejudicial ban, leading them to lose their livelihoods. The…