Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP strengthens commitment to our fellow Indians in Assam in 2021 More people released from detention centres, important legal interventions made
03-Jan-2022
In 2021, CJP achieved some important milestones in our programme to defend the rights of our fellow Indians in Assam. Not the least of these was helping as many as 16 more people secure bail and get released from various detention centres across the state. This takes the tally, since we began such crucial interventions…
CJP helps two brothers get released from Assam Detention Centre Mahiruddin and Mainuddin released after four months of hard work
09-Dec-2021
For the team at Citizens for Justice and Peace, our mission in Assam to protect and defend the rights of all Indians, also has another important goal… that of reuniting families. In this endeavour we have another tradition of honouring the bond of brothers. In March 2020, we helped secure the release of brothers Abdur Rashid…
CJP’s Assam Legal Aid Petition: Gauhati HC asks Centre and State to indicate stand on funding Court observed proper funding could help provide competent legal aid
23-Nov-2021
In a shot in the arm for the Legal Aid machinery in the State of Assam, the Gauhati High Court has asked the Centre as well as the Assam State Government to indicate their stand on provision of funds. This was in connection with a petition filed by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) seeking…
Gauhati HC extends interim protection to Gulbhanu Begum FT declared her a foreigner because authorities had recorded her father’s name incorrectly
18-Nov-2021
In yet another victory for Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), the Gauhati High Court has issued notice in connection with our petition on behalf of Gulbhanu Begum who was declared foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) in Bongaigaon, Assam. She has now been granted interim protection. Gubhanu Begum is a resident of Patkata Pt-II…
Have somehow kept the kitchen fires burning: Wife of Assam man declared foreigner Mojibor Sheikh’s family struggle financially as they await his return from detention centre
11-Nov-2021
In our bid to help our fellow Indian citizens in Assam, CJP is now working towards securing conditional bail for Mojibor Sheikh of Shaljhora village that falls under the jurisdiction of Dhaligaon police station in the Chirang district of Assam. Sheikh was declared foreigner by the Kajalgaon-Chirang on Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT Case No. 335/2010MKCR/ID and IM(D)T…
Flood victims served FT notices in Assam! Citizenship in question even as they live on the street after the river washed away their home
02-Nov-2021
In yet another example of the regime’s callous apathy, notices are being served by Foreigners’ Tribunals (FT) to flood-affected people in Assam to prove their citizenship. Our on-ground teams have found that such notices have been served in Jaraguri and Jamdoha village, which fall under Manikpur police station in Bongaigaon district. “I’ve been working as…
Guilty till proven Innocent! heraldgoa.in
22-Sep-2021
One of the basic principles of the criminal justice system is that the benefit of doubt must always be extended in favour of the accused — 1000 culprits can escape, but not even 1 innocent should be punished. Also the United Nations had incorporated the principle — Innocent till proven guilty — in its Declaration…
Purnima Biswas: I couldn’t bid my husband a proper goodbye Part of CJP’s Stories from Assam series
20-Sep-2021
In many of the cases the CJP team has handled in Assam, the lives of detention centre inmates change significantly by the time they are released. Many go back to empty homes and memories of loved ones who have passed. The story of Purnima Biswas too, had a bittersweet ending. The 58-year-old Biswas hails from…
Citizenship Trauma: Ganga Reaches Home After Years In Assam Detention Centre assampress.com
16-Sep-2021
Guwahati: Almost a decade later, Gangadhar Pramanik from West Bengal who was declared foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam and put behind bar at the Goalpara detention centre, finally reunited with his family in Bankura recently. The then 23-year-old Gangadhar had left his home in search of work. Lived in abject poverty and…
Citizenship Trauma: Gangad reaches home after years in Assam Detention Centre time8.in
16-Sep-2021
“My son Ganga is back,” his mother cried as hugged and held him as he reached his family. Gangadhar with his mother and CJP officials | CJP Guwahati: Almost a decade later, Gangadhar Pramanik from West Bengal who was declared foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Assam and put behind bar at the Goalpara detention…