Citizens for Justice and Peace
Teesta Setalvad and Zamser Ali take you through CJP’s Initiatives in Assam Watch a video of our Live Facebook chat!
20-Oct-2018
In this live video chat held on Facebook recently, CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad and CJP’s Assam initiative coordinator Zamser Ali discuss the various initiatives on ground as well as the challenges faced in our outreach program. If you are an Indian citizen in Assam and need any help in filing your application as a part…
“They came late at night demanding our fingerprints”: Three Sisters of Tubuki The Making and Re-Making of Indians as Citizens in Assam: A CJP Series
20-Oct-2018
Something insidious is underway in Tubuki village in Kampur Tehsil of Assam’s Nagaon district. Border Police personnel are allegedly going to people’s homes late at night demanding fingerprints! Three women from this village have alleged that officers of the Border Police came to their homes after dark, asked them to provide fingerprints and left after…
Dalit Migrant Workers Falsely Implicated in Bhima Koregaon Clashes! Watch this video to know more
15-Oct-2018
The Pune Police’s first attempts to link ‘Maoists’ to the violence that erupted at the Elgaar Parishad programe, happened before the activists arrest. In January 2018, 8 men including 5 workers and a contractor of Reliance Infrastructure private limited were arrested in alleged connection with the Bhima Koregaon incidents of violence. These arrests, however, hardly…
CJP’s Volunteer Motivators Reach Out in Assam Dial 1800 300 250 78 for help
13-Oct-2018
CJP reaches out to the people of Assam who are negotiating a labyrinth of citizenship related problems. Many of our special Volunteer Motivators (VMs) have spread out across many of Assam’s districts and are helping people on the ground with their claims and objections process. They are being backed by our toll free Assam State…
असम के डिटेंशन कैम्प में बंद महिला के लिए सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने दिया रिहाई का आदेश सोफ़िया ख़ातून के मामले ने कई व्यवस्थागत कमियों को किया है उजागर
11-Oct-2018
असम में कोकराझार डिटेन्शन कैम्प में बंद सोफ़िया ख़ातून के लिए एक बड़ी राहत की ख़बर है. सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने अब उन्हें व्यक्तिगत रिलीज बॉन्ड (PR बॉन्ड) पर रिहा करने का आदेश दिया है. सन 2016 में बारपेटा फ़ॉरेनार्स ट्रिब्यूनल द्वारा विदेशी घोषित कर दिए जाने के बाद से ही इन्हें डिटेन्शन कैम्प में डाल दिया गया…
CJP in Action: CJP Volunteer Motivators helping people file NRC Claims in Assam Photo-feature: Our team creating awareness and offering assistance on the ground in Assam
11-Oct-2018
CJP’s Volunteer Motivators (VMs) are helping people whose names have been left out of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) final draft that was published on July 30, 2018, file applications under the Claims and Objections process for inclusion of their names. Our VMs are a committed group of people who are travelling to different…
चौथी बार अपनी नागरिकता साबित करने को मजबूर हैं असम के शमसुल हक़ असम में भारतीय नागरिकता पर प्रश्नचिंह - एक CJP श्रृंखला
10-Oct-2018
असम में राष्ट्रीय नागरिकता रजिस्टर (NRC) प्रक्रिया का अंतिम मसौदा 30 जुलाई 2018 को जारी कर दिया गया था, जिसके चलते लिस्ट में जिन लोगों का नाम नहीं आया, वे लोग अब NRC में अपना नाम शामिल करने का आवेदन कर सकते हैं. परन्तु वे लोग इस सुविधा से अब भी वंचित हैं, जिनसे सम्बंधित मामले, फ़ॉरेनर्स ट्रिब्यूनल…
Yet another Mysterious Death in Assam Detention Camp Declared Foreigner Jobbar Ali found dead in Tezpur Detention Camp
08-Oct-2018
Jobbar Ali, a 61 year old man who had been languishing behind bars at the Detention Camp in Tezpur, was found dead on October 5. Now, his family, many of whom are themselves fighting allegations of being doubtful or D-Voters, suspect foul play in his death. Ali lived with his wife Simon Nessa, two…
CJP in Action: Volunteer Motivators and Public Campaigns in Assam Photo-feature: Our team creating awareness and offering assistance on the ground in Assam
05-Oct-2018
There is something rotten in the state of Assam. Saken Ali was forced to spend five years in a detention camp because of a minor discrepancy in how his name is spelt in two different documents. A pregnant Rashminara Begum was dragged away to a detention camp because of another such discrepancy in her date of…
Children of Deceased DF couple struggle to prove Citizenship in Assam Gauhati HC grants temporary relief
02-Oct-2018
In a shocking case in Assam, nine children of a deceased couple were forced to run from pillar to post to prove that their dead parents were indeed Indian! However, the Gauhati High Court has now granted them temporary relief. Sunahar Ali and Mojida Khatun, the deceased couple, were posthumously declared ‘foreigner’ by a Foreigners’…
EXCLUSIVE: 15 days after release from an Assam Detention Camp Sofiya Khatun still traumatised Unable to speak, lives in constant fear despite freedom
01-Oct-2018
It has been a fortnight since her release, but 50 year old Sofiya Khatun is not the same. After spending two years and eight days in a detention camp, she is a shadow of her former self and even though she is back home, her life has not returned to normal. She lives every day…
The One Stop Guide to Assam’s NRC Issue The Making and Re-Making of Indians as Citizens in Assam
25-Sep-2018
NRC, D-Voters, Foreigners’ Tribunals, Detention Camps, Border Police… Have you been hearing these terms vis-a-vis Assam lately? If not, then welcome back to civilization. If yes, then this is your one-stop guide to everything that is happening is Assam, that has happened in Assam and that has led to the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The…
NRC दावा-आपत्ति प्रक्रिया: हटाए गए 5 दस्तावेज़ों पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने मांगी रिपोर्ट दावा-आपत्ति प्रक्रिया का पुनर्निर्धारण
21-Sep-2018
उच्चतम न्यायालय जो राष्ट्रीय नागरिकता रजिस्टर (NRC) में दावों और आपत्तियों को शामिल करने से सम्बंधित मामले को सुन रहा है, ने अब NRC राज्य समन्वयक को केंद्र की नई मानक संचालन प्रक्रियाओं और मोडेलिटी से बाहर किए गए पांच दस्तावेज़ों पर अपना विचार प्रस्तुत करने का निर्देश दिया है. उन्हें 15 दिनों के भीतर इन पांच दस्तावेज़ों के लिए व्यवहार्यता रिपोर्ट…
NRC Claims and Objections SOPs: SC demands Feasibility Report on 5 Excluded Documents Claims and Objection process to resume
19-Sep-2018
The Supreme Court that is hearing the matter pertaining to the process for filing Claims and Objections for inclusion into the National Register of Citizens has now directed the NRC State Coordinator to submit his view on the five documents excluded from center’s new Standard Operating Procedures and Modalities. He has been asked to submit a feasibility report for…
Assam Woman languishing in Detention Camp set free by SC on Personal Bond Sofiya Khatun's case highlights several glaring lacunae in the system
15-Sep-2018
In a huge relief for Sofiya Khatun, a detainee at the Kokrajhar Detention Camp in Assam, the Supreme Court has now ordered her release on a Personal Release (PR) Bond. The 50 year old had been lodged in the camp after she was declared a foreigner by a Foreigners’ Tribunal in Barpeta in 2016. A…