Citizens for Justice and Peace
2002 Gujarat riots “update”: 1,926 lost their lives; “historic” efforts on to link violence with state culpability
28-Feb-2017
India’s most renowned human rights activist who has taken up the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, Teesta Setalvad, has told Counterview that a fresh exercise by her NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), suggests that “as many as 1,926 lives were lost in the reprisal violence that broke out after the Godhra tragedy from February…
2002 Gujarat riots “update”: 1,926 lost their lives; “historic” efforts on to link violence with state culpability
28-Feb-2017
Written by Rajiv Shah India’s most renowned human rights activist who has taken up the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, Teesta Setalvad, has told Counterview that a fresh exercise by her NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), suggests that “as many as 1,926 lives were lost in the reprisal violence that broke out after the…
2002 Gujarat riots “update”: 1,926 lost their lives; “historic” efforts on to link violence with state culpability
28-Feb-2017
India’s most renowned human rights activist who has taken up the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, Teesta Setalvad, has told Counterview that a fresh exercise by her NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), suggests that “as many as 1,926 lives were lost in the reprisal violence that broke out after the Godhra tragedy from February…
2002 Gujarat riots “update:” 1,926 lost their lives; “historic” efforts on to link violence with state culpability
28-Feb-2017
India’s most renowned human rights activist who has taken up the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, Teesta Setalvad, has told Counterview that a fresh exercise by her NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), suggests that “as many as 1,926 lives were lost in the reprisal violence that broke out after the Godhra tragedy from February…
The woman who lost 25 members of her family in the 2002 riots and went on to help other widows
27-Feb-2017
15 years after the communal carnage in Gujarat, Harsh Mander narrates a tale of exceptional courage. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP | Farzan Biwi, 22, who lost her husband during the communal violence in Gujarat, kisses her 15-day-old baby at a relief camp in Ahmedabad in May 2002. I have engaged for many years with survivors of communal…
15 years of Gujarat 2002 riots – why every Indian must remember
27-Feb-2017
During the times of Kabir in the 15th century, India simmered with communal tension, the reason why he wrote and sung so passionately about Hindu-Muslim unity. Like a huge flash in the pan, a riot would erupt quickly, consume what it could and die. In India in the last few decades, this flash has been…
Is this Hate Speech? Text and Analysis of Speech delivered by then CM, Gujarat, Narendra Modi, at Mehsana
20-Feb-2017
Is this Hate Speech? Verbatim Text of the Public Speech delivered by the then Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, at Bahucharaji (Mehsana district of Gujarat State) on September 9, 2002, as part of Gaurav Yatra. This signalled the start of his election campaign after the 2002 pogrom in the state The procession of prestige (Gaurav Yatra)…
Is this Hate Speech? Text and Analysis of Speech delivered by then CM, Gujarat, Narendra Modi, at Mehsana
20-Feb-2017
Is this Hate Speech? Verbatim Text of the Public Speech delivered by the then Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, at Bahucharaji (Mehsana district of Gujarat State) on September 9, 2002, as part of Gaurav Yatra. This signalled the start of his election campaign after the 2002 pogrom in the stateThe procession of prestige (Gaurav Yatra) has…
India: Ongoing judicial harassment of human rights defenders Ms. Teesta Setalvad and her husband, Mr. Javed Anand
08-Feb-2017
New information IND 003 / 0716 / OBS 054.1 Judicial harassment India February 8, 2017 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in India. New information: The Observatory has…
Persistent in their Struggle for Justice, Gulberg Massacre Survivors Challenge Sessions Verdict: Gujarat 2002
07-Feb-2017
After a grueling exercise of over seven months, Survivors of the Gulberg carnage, both Rupabehn Modi and Sairabehn Sandhi, have filed an appeal against special court judge PB Desai’s June 2016 order convicting 24 accused and acquitting 36 others in Gujarat’s second worse massacre of 2002 and questioned the Judge’s discarding the charge of criminal…