Gujarat Genocide 2002

Former Guj DGP moves HC, demands tabling of Part 2 of Nanavati Commission Report State finally agrees, report to be tabled in Budget Session

06-Sep-2019

Former Gujarat Director General of Police RB Sreekumar has moved Gujarat High Court demanding that the second part of the Nanavati Commission report be tabled before the Gujarat State Assembly so that its findings can become public. The Nanavati Commission was set up to look into the facts, circumstances and all the course of events…

Ask Me Anything: आपके सवाल, तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ के जवाब कठिन प्रश्न, कड़ी निंदा या झूठे इलज़ाम - डट कर किया सामना

23-Jun-2018

सिटीज़न्स फॉर जस्टिस एंड पीस (CJP) की सचिव तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ ने शनिवार June 9, 2018 को स्टैंड-अप कमेडियन कुनाल कामरा से अपने काम और उनपर लगे आरोपों पर बात की. उन्होंने कुनाल को भारत में मानवाधिकार की स्थिति के बारे में भी बताया. यह हमारा पहला Ask Me Anything था, जिसमें तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ ने लोगों…

CJP Condemns Gujarat Police’s Efforts to Hound and Jail Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand Appeals for Peaceful Nationwide Protests to Defend the Defenders

24-May-2018

CJP is appalled at the Gujarat Police’s predatory efforts to use any means necessary, including the most profoundly foul ones, to somehow incarcerate human rights defenders Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand in yet another false case. Even after the Bombay High Court granted them transit bail and the Supreme Court has extended protection until May 31,…

ओड नरसंहार : गुजरात हाईकोर्ट ने 19 लोगों की सज़ा रखी बरकरार 1 मार्च, 2002 को गुजरात दंगों के दौरान आनंद ज़िले में 23 लोगों को जिंदा जला दिया गया था

12-May-2018

गुजरात हाई कोर्ट की खंडपीठ ने ओड दंगे में दोषी पाए गए 19 लोगों की सज़ा बरकरार रखी है. गुजरात के आनंद जिले में ओड नाम के स्थान पर मुसलमान विरोधी हिंसा के चलते 23 लोगों को ज़िंदा जला दिया गया था. यह घटना गोधरा ट्रेन के जलने के ठीक दो दिन बाद, 1 मार्च, 2002…

‘Institutionalised Riot Systems’ stoked communal flames in Gujarat in 2002 This is how hate is manufactured and spread by right wing groups

05-Mar-2018

The Gujarat genocide of 2002 had been preceded by continuing series of violence against Muslims in several states. Gujarat police had reported earlier that between 1987 and 1991, 106 major incidents of communal violence had taken place in the state. From 1996 to 2000, 88 major and 125 relatively minor incidents of communal violence had…

Final Solution A documentary by Rakesh Sharma

27-Feb-2018

Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 – July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the 2002 genocide of Muslims in Gujarat. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscient of the Nazi Germany of…

How the Supreme Court Dealt with the Zakia Jafri Case Part 2 of a Four Part Exclusive Interview with Senior Advocate Mihir Desai

28-Oct-2017

In the second part of the a four part interview, senior counsel , Mihir Desai explains how the Supreme Court deals with the complicated issues in the Zakia Jafri case, given the enormity of evidence. After the Supreme Court remands the case back to the Magistrate (September 12, 2011), Zakia Jafri is given the right…

Evidence Unearthed in the Zakia Jafri Case Part 3 of a Four Part Interview with Senior Advocate Mihir Desai

28-Oct-2017

In the third of the four part interview, senior counsel, Mihir Desai traces the wealth of evidence that indicates the chain of command responsibility and criminal conspiracy behind the genocidal carnage in Gujarat 2002. He also explains how the evidence of Sanjiv Bhatt was never a pillar of either the criminal complaint files by Zakia…

Order of the Gujarat High Court Dated October 5, 2017, Judge Sonia Gokhani

05-Oct-2017

The 153 page Order partially allowed the criminal revision application of Zakia Jafri, holding that Magistrate BG Ganatra was wrong in holding (Order dated 26.12.2013) that he had no scope or powers to order criminal compliant  further investigation. Zakia Jafri had filed her criminal complaint before the Gujarat Police on June 8, 2006 and when…

Press Note Zakia Jafri Case – CJP

12-Sep-2011