M. Nizam Moideen, State general secretary, SDPI, led the demonstration which also saw the participation of S. Vetrikumaran, State coordinator, Naam Tamilar Katchi, Raja Hassan, president, Madurai Muslim Aikya Jamaat, and Henri Tiphagne, executive director, People’s Watch, who also addressed the meeting. Several Muslim women also took part in the demonstration.

Addressing a demonstration staged on the 30th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition on Chinnakadai Street in South Gate, Mr. Moideen said that the Masjid was razed down by a group of “religious fanatics.”

Madurai based Human Rights Organisation, People’s Watch, has urged the State Human Rights Commission, the State Commission for Women and the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to conduct a joint inquiry into the death of a Class XII girl in Kallakurichi district.

The custodial death of a Dalit youth in Chennai again sparks outrage and highlights the urgent need to humanise the police force.

‘Ensure 90% of Central government jobs in Tamil Nadu are reserved for Tamils’

Bring Education under the State list, treat the Sri Lankan Tamils fleeing the island nation as refugees and not as illegal migrants, grant tribal status to fishermen, ensure that 90% of the Central government jobs in Tamil Nadu were reserved for Tamils - these are some of the resolutions passed by People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) at a State-level Conference held in Madurai.

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நீராவி முருகன் என்கவுன்ட்டர் திட்டமிட்டு நடத்தப்பட்டது!

மக்கள் கண்காணிப்பகம் குற்றச்சாட்டு

களக்காடு வனப்பகுதியில் ரவுடி நீராவி முருகனை காவல்துறை உயர் அதிகாரிகள் திட்டமிட்டு படுகொலை செய்துள்ளதாக மக்கள் கண்காணிப்பகம் அமைப்பு குற்றம் சாட்டியுள்ளது.

Human rights activists and tribal association have urged the State government to release the brother of slain forest brigand Veerappan and two of his associates who were in the Coimbatore Central Prison for the last 33 years.

‘Stop use of FCRA to repress dissent’

The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) on Monday condemned the registration of a case and searches by the CBI against the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns (CPSC) and its initiative, People’s Watch, for alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns (CPSC), a Madurai based non-governmental organisation (NGO), and its programme unit, the People's Watch, on charges of violating the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 1976.

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The Government must give a more transparent account of its actions against NGOs