Puducherry, Jan 31 : The Federation for Peoples Rights here today urged the administration to order a judicial inquiry into the violence in Yanam Region of the union territory. In a statement here today, Federation Secretary G Sugumaran regretted that even after demands from different political parties for a judicial probe,the government was yet to [...]...More

Puducherry, Oct 21 : The Federation for People’s Rights here today extended its support to the struggle of the people at Idinthakarai village in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu against the Koodankulam Nuclear Plant (KKNPP). In a release here today, Federation Secretary G Sugumaran pointed out that scientists and social activists had expressed apprehension of [...]...More

Federation for People’s Rights, Secretary, G. Sugumaran issued a Press Release on 21.10.2011: Federation for People’s Rights express its solidarity to the people’s struggle at Idinthakarai village against the Koodankulam Nuclear Plant. The Central Government is constructing a Nuclear Plant in Koodankulam at Tirunelveli District, which is aided by the Russian Government. The Scientists and [...]...More

Federation for People’s Rights (FPR), Secretary, G. Sugumaran, issued a Press Release on 13.10.2011: Federation for People’s Rights strongly condemns the attack on Supreme Court Senior Advocate Mr. Prashant Bhushan by Hindu fundamentalist forces. Mr. Prashant Bhushan was engaged in an interview with a private channel yesterday at his office at the New Law Chambers [...]...More

Federation for People’s Rights (FPR) organized a Political Parties and Social Organisations Meeting Today (2nd October, 2011) at 10 am at Chamber of Commerce. The meeting was presided by the Federation Secretary G. Sugumaran.  Ira. Azhagiri, President, Tamil Nationalist Movement, G.C. Chandran President Singaravelar Munnetra Kazhagam, G.A. Jagannathan, Former President, Karikalampakkam Village Panchayat, Ka. Thamizhamallan, [...]...More

Staff Reporter Paramakudi police firing is a result of an “anti-Dalit bias” among police and government officials and a few belonging to dominant castes, who are unable to digest the economic mobility and assertion of the Dalits, says a fact-finding report. A fact-finding team, comprising civil rights activists and intellectuals from Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka [...]...More

PUHR, Tamilnadu Chapter Organiser Prof. A. Marx issued a Press Release on September 16, 2011: A Fact Finding Team comprising of civil rights activists from Tamilnadu, Puducherry, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh will visit Paramakudi, Madurai and other places in Ramanathapuram and Madurai districts of Tamilnadu where seven dalits are killed in police firing on [...]...More

Puducherry: Several organisations got together to stage a demonstration at the Sudesi Mills grounds on Wednesday against the death penalty. According to one of the demonstrators, the protestors had three demands: firstly to commute the death sentence to a life sentence for the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, secondly to commute the [...]...More

Puducherry, Aug 31: Members of Puducherry-based Federation for People’s Rights today held a demonstration near the Singaravelar statue here to press for abolishing capital punishment awarded to the three convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Federation Secrertary G Sugumaran pointed out that the death sentance in the T V Vaitheeswaran Vs Tamil Nadu state [...]...More

Puducherry, Aug 21 (PTI) Puducherry unit of Federation of People’s Rights today adopted a resolution appealing to the Central government to commute as life term the death penalty awarded to Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan, facing death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. G Sugumaran, Secretary of the Federation, said in a release here that [...]...More