Citizens for Justice and Peace
CJP Demands Police Reform Submits memorandum to NHRC
06-Jul-2018
Citizens for Justice and Peace moved National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) demanding guidelines on how the Police behaves with peaceful protestors. The right to protest peacefully, enshrined in Article 19 of the Indian Constitution, is being eroded across the country. In many instances, the police are cracking down on those demanding action or raising awareness…
Police Brutality against UP Adivasis: NHRC assures action after CJP intervention DM Sonbhadra asked to submit report within three weeks
04-Jun-2018
The National Commission for Human Rights (NHRC) has ordered the District Magistrate (DM) of Sonbhadra to conduct a probe into the incident of police brutality in which several women, children and others were attacked on May 18. They were beaten up after they staked claim to forest land under Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006, Uttar Pradesh. On…
AIUFWP urges Sonebhadra DM to investigate harassment of Adivasi women Demands immediate implementation of Forest Rights Act
26-May-2018
Two incidents of violation of fundamental freedoms of Adivasi Forest workers took place recently in Sonebhadra, UP. One on May 18, in which as many as 12 Adivasi women from Lilasi village, Dudhi were seemingly falsely accused of cutting trees, and hence taken to the Nevarpur thana and harassed throughout the day by police. Another on May 22, when…
अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम यूनिवर्सिटी पर हमला : कुछ सवाल क्या किसी लोकतांत्रिक देश में पुलिस का इस तरह से पक्षपाती होना उचित है?
10-May-2018
पिछले कुछ दिनों से अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम यूनिवर्सिटी में जिन्नाह की तस्वीर को लेकर बवाल मचा हुआ है. ऐसा कहा जा रहा है की राष्ट्रवादियो और AMU के छात्रों के बीच टकराव हुआ – सच असल में क्या है, इस विडियो में देखिये Related Articles: CJP Questions AMU Violence Struggle not for Jinnah but against…
CJP Questions AMU Violence Can the police be so blatantly biased?
09-May-2018
After contradictory media reports and the available video evidence, CJP raises some questions regarding the violence that took place at the Aligarh Muslim University. Related Articles: Struggle not for Jinnah but against Hindutva goons who created nuisance: AMU students CPI (ML) New Democracy blames BJP Government for fomenting communal strife in AMU Delhi Police…
JNU के छात्रों पर पुलिस ने कैसे किया अत्याचार सुनिए सुभाषिनी अली की ज़ुबानी
26-Mar-2018
२३ March को Delhi की सड़कों पर JNU के छात्रों के शांतिपूर्ण रैली पर पुलिस ने अटैक किया. छात्र – छात्राओं को मारा गया, उनके कपड़े फाड़े गए और उन्हें पुलिस की एक ट्रेनिंग फैसिलिटी में ले जाया गया – माकपा की पूर्व सांसद सुभाषिनी अली वहां मौजूद थी. तीस्ता सेतालवाद के साथ इस बातचीत…
Marielle Franco, a voice for the silenced Brazillian Councilwoman shot dead for protesting against gun violence
25-Mar-2018
Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco was shot to death on March Wednesday, March 14, 2018. She was 38. Franco was born in raised in one of Rio’s poorest and most violent areas, the Maré complex of favelas (slums). A black, LGBT woman, Franco became a single mother at age 19, going on to complete college and obtain…
Delhi Police target students and media at JNU Long March Allegations of assault, manhandling and molestation
24-Mar-2018
March 23 will forever be etched in the hearts of every Indian as the day Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev attained martyrdom during India’s freedom struggle. So when the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) chose March 23, 2018 to march to the Parliament demanding a complete overhaul of the university management and suspension of…
Anatomy of a Hate Crime The Bombay Riots Story
08-Jan-2018
The narrative of mass violence targeted against India’s religious minorities has always been preceded and accompanied by a conscious and deliberate attempt to manipulate its chronological and historical narrative. This was visibly and sharply so with the post Babri Masjid demolition violence countrywide but especially the bouts that convulsed Bombay from the afternoon of Sunday,…