Citizens for Justice and Peace
Empowering Assam: CJP goes above and beyond the call of duty After getting detainees released from detention camps, we are providing them food rations
10-Jul-2021
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has built a unique relationship with the people of Assam. In the three years that we have been serving our fellow Indians in the state, we have become acutely aware of issues intertwined with the larger matter of citizenship. We therefore believe that our work does not end with…
Dhubri’s another woman detained in Kokrajhar Detention Camp for 2 years Dhubri Buzz
08-Jun-2021
Shanti Basfore, a 60-years-old woman who belongs to a small Dalit Community in Assam, was detained in Kokrajhar jail cum detention centre, 2 years ago. She is a resident of Ramraikuti, Pt-2 village that falls under the jurisdiction of Agomani police station in Dhubri district. Her home is located only half a kilometer away from…
Father in Assam detention camp, brave daughter held the fort CJP helps Joykrishna Paul secure bail and reunite with family
22-May-2021
21-year-old Monalisa, who has been working in a cloth shop to provide for her family for the last two years, is a relieved young woman today. Her father Joykrishna Paul is finally home after spending two years in the Goalpara detention camp in Assam. “What happened to us, should never happen to anyone else,” she…
CJP helps release woman from detention camp months after her husband’s death Amala Das was jailed in Assam's Detention Camp since 2017
18-May-2021
Watch Amala Das’ journey from the detention camp to her home in Chirang, where she spent forty years with her husband Gopesh Das. Gopesh died in December 2020 after losing all hope of getting his wife out of the detention camp. CJP worked for three months, amid COVID-19 surge, and secured Amala’s release on bail.…
CJP’s legal fight to free Dalit woman named Shanti who was dubbed Bangladeshi Samoik Prasanga
24-Apr-2021
Who says detention camps have become a symbol of hell for only religious and linguistic minorities? Sixty-year-old Shanti is being held captive in Kokrajhar detention camp after being identified as a foreigner in an ex parte judgement by the Foreigners Tribunal. No, this old lady is neither a Hindu Bengali nor a Muslim Bengali. Shanti…
Several Foreigner notices pasted on the electric posts in Bongaigaon, Hindu Bengali also not spared Jugashankha
22-Apr-2021
Foreigner notice has created terror just after the election. The Foreigner notice has been issued again in the several districts of lower Assam including Bongaigaon. Though Citizenship Amendment Act is in force but, Hindu Bengali has not left out to get the notice. The Hindu Bengali too are receiving the notice. The main issue is…
CJP reaches out to the family of Dalit woman in Assam’s detention camp CJP will continue to help more hapless citizens like her
16-Apr-2021
60 year old Shanti Basfore, who belongs to a small Dalit Community in Assam, has been jailed in the Kokrajhar Detention camp since May 2019. Even though she had all valid documents, poverty and lack of education made her fail to appear before the Foreigners’ Tribunals, when she was sent a Notice. She was then…
EXCLUSIVE: Foreigners’ Tribunal notices pasted on electricity poles in Assam! CJP finds several such notices across Bongaigaon; widespread panic among people
12-Apr-2021
Though assembly elections have ended in Assam, with the conclusion of the third phase on April 6, 2021, the politics over citizenship issue continues, with fresh panic being created in the form of Foreigners’ Tribunal (FT) notices, that were found pasted on several electricity poles in Bongaigaon by the Assam team of Citizens for Justice…
CJP files a petition for legal aid to NRC excluded persons in Assam CJP moves Guwahati High Court
03-Mar-2021
Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) has filed a petition before Guwahati High Court seeking directions to the state to formulate effective and robust modalities for legal aid in terms of having trained panels of lawyers and adequate front offices in light of the impending appeals to be filed before Foreigners Tribunals by people from…
Overcoming trauma together: CJP in Assam How we secured a widow’s release from a detention camp to complete her husband's post-death rituals
29-Dec-2020
It was a cold morning. I was awakened by my ringing mobile phone at 5.30 AM. I answered the phone as no one calls me this early given how it is well known that my work keeps me awake till late at night. In fact, I could only go to bed at 3.30 AM, that…