Tag: Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP)

CJP’s memorandum to NHRC reveals mass night-time raids, disappearances of Bengali-speaking Muslims, and extra-legal deportations—signalling a grave constitutional and humanitarian crisis in India’s northeast

Between the night of Friday, May 23, and Monday, May 26, Assam police launched a sweeping crackdown across all 33 districts—including Barak Valley, Central, Lower, and North Assam—detaining nearly 300 men and women without notice or legal justification. Families and advocates were given no information about their whereabouts, in clear violation of constitutional and legal norms. While about 150 were reportedly released within days, unconfirmed reports to CJP’s ground team suggest that 145 individuals—still fighting for their citizenship rights—were forcibly pushed across the border, left stranded and vulnerable in the no man’s land between the two countries

With CJP’s intervention, the 10 th Foreigners Tribunal in Dhubri recognised Matleb Ali’s Indian citizenship, restoring his dignity and ending his battle against wrongful suspicion of foreigner status

CJP files complaints with six major news channels — Aaj Tak, India TV, News18, Times Now Navbharat, ABP News and NDTV — for airing misleading Israeli defence footage from 2021 and 2023 as Indian strikes, and falsely presenting archived combat visuals as real-time action during 'Operation Sindoor; ' News18 also misrepresented Indian educator Maulana Mohammad Iqbal as a terrorist; Poonch police refuted the claim, his family demands accountability

Visual perception is an inherently selective process and Indian commercial television channels, faced with adverse orders from the NBDSA are now leveraging on misleading click-baits, problematic visuals and texts on the thumbnail of the video displayed: the CJP HW team asks is this a new technique to incite vicarious reactions but escape the monitoring rap and scrutiny?

Branded Bangladeshi by the State and detained without extinguishing his legal remedies, Abdul Matleb died in custody — only to be returned to his family as an Indian. His story exposes the human cost of Assam’s broken citizenship regime

Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD), along with the Bebaak Collective, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and Wisdom Foundation strongly have condemned the heinous terrorist targeting of tourists near Pahalgam in the Kashmir valley, killing 26 innocents and injuring several others on April 22.

Broad definitions and unchecked police authority could criminalise dissent, CJP cautions

The affidavit submitted by the State of Assam in the ongoing Raju Bala case, provides a comprehensive breakdown of 270 individuals currently lodged in the Matia Transit camp, detailing their legal status, progress of deportation process, and challenges faced

The complaint points out how the anchor Chandan Singh manipulated a Waqf protest into a false narrative that linked it to a fabricated threat against Holi, fuelled by sensational claims and hostile interruptions, turning the show into a biased and unbalanced spectacle