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Last week many among us who signed here sent an open appeal to you requesting you to personally initiate the process of opening a dialogue with the Maoists as that, in our opinion, was the only way out to resolve differences with those who are the sons and daughters of our soil, and not our enemies. We also emphasized that the issue was not at all a law-and-order problem, but rooted in socio-economic deprivation and hence deserved a totally different kind of solution.

PEOPLES’ ARTIST JEETAN DEMANDS JUSTICE!

Details: Published on Sunday, 23 October 2011 04:30; Written by www.icawpi.org

The one who gave cultural expression to the pain and anguish of the working people and their struggles... who moved around with his cultural troupe from the fields, factories and mines to the villages, suburbs, and cities singing songs on peoples' culture... he who rekindled the hopes of Hul-Ulgulan -rebellion against exploitation- for the rights over Jal-Jangal-Zameen and life among the oppressed and discriminated adivasis and the labouring people... he who filled the hearts of the people, plundered and deceived by the government, with a craving for social transformation to reclaim the right to a life of dignity, land and wellbeing... one who became the lyrical consciousness of the struggle to build a new society and a new power, the struggle of light against darkness, of the hungry against hunger...

Butchery Of Dalits In Paramakudi

Details: Published on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 17:27; Written by www.icawpi.org

By Dr Anand Teltumbde

(A Press Note for the Press Meet on 4 October 2011 at Chennai Press Club)

The news of police firing on Dalits, congregated at Paramakudi to observe the 54 th anniversary of the martyrdom of their leader Emmanuel Sekaran, killing six of them and injuring scores of them, just within four months from Ms J Jayalalitha regaining her power, shocked the entire nation. The Tamilnadu based Centre for Protection of Civil Liberties took an initiative to constitute an all India team to do the fact finding into the incident.

SLANDEROUS HARASSMENT AND VIOLATION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY BY KERALA POLICE AGAINST AN ACTIVIST'S FAMILY

Details: Published on Saturday, 22 October 2011 01:06; Written by www.icawpi.org

SLANDEROUS HARASSMENT AND VIOLATION OF PERSONAL LIBERTY BY KERALA POLICE AGAINST AN ACTIVIST'S FAMILY

The fact finding team consisting of members from PUCL, Kerala, Janakeeya Manushyavakasya Prasthanam, CPCL-TN, were formed to go into the facts of the alleged harassment faced by the family members of Ms. Shaina, her old mother, aged 71 and young children aged 15years and 8 years, within days of assumption of power by the UDF government since May 2011. The team received an email from Ms. Shaina, which is attached as Annexure wherein she has reported about the harassment meted out to her mother and daughters in the hands of Kerala Police.

Police raid at the house of Kavita Srivastava condemned

Details: Published on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 01:00; Written by www.icawpi.org

4 October 2011- By TCN News

Patna: Civil groups have strongly condemned Monday’s police raid at the Jaipur house of eminent social activist and General Secretary of People’s Union For Civil Liberties, Kavita Srivastava. The raid was carried out by Chhattisgarh police in collaboration with the Rajasthan police on the false pretext of hiding some Maoists.

Condemn the Physical and Mental Torture on the Minor Daughters and Mother of Activist Shyna!

Details: Published on Saturday, 15 October 2011 06:48; Written by www.icawpi.org

Condemn the Illegal Detention and Intimidation of Civil Rights Activists by the Lawless Kerala Police!

Once again, yet another act of impunity of the supposed guardians of law. This time it is not in the adivasi regions of Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Jangal Mahal etc. This time it is in the state of Kerala where there is already a climate of deliberate mass hysteria created by the state ably supported by a jingoist, conniving media.

Condemn the Cold blooded murder of Ranjit Murmu-the first prisoner under UAPA to die in Mamata Banerjee led government!

Details: Published on Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:06; Written by www.icawpi.org

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
185/3, FOURTH FLOOR, ZAKIR NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110025

Immediately conduct an independent enquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of Ranjit Murmu!

An Open Appeal to the Chief Minister of West Bengal

Details: Published on Friday, 14 October 2011 05:05; Written by www.icawpi.org

To The Chief Minster, Government of West Bengal

Madam,

For several years at a stretch the people of Jungle Mahal in West Bengal have been suffering persecution, humiliation and indignities in the hands of the state forces and armed bullies financed by the ruling parties. There have been brutalities perpetrated by the police, joint forces and the CPM-sponsored goons against the people as a result of which many adivasis have died, many have been killed in fake encounters, even while they were asleep, many have been injured, hundreds of houses have been raided, looted and ...

Gurusharanji—In Lieu of a Homage

Details: Published on Wednesday, 28 September 2011 23:46; Written by www.icawpi.org

The most beautiful thing for those who have fought a whole life is to come to the end and say; we believed in people and life, and the people never let us down. -- Otto Rene Castillo

It is with immense grief that the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) would share the demise of Gurusharan Singh. Apart from all other things which many of the readers might already know about him, he was for us, at CRPP, the honorary president of the committee, a spirited fighter who was always a source of strength and support. What was so disarming about Gurusharanji was his unflinching commitment to the people that too, to the oppressed, discriminated and exploited.