Daniel Berehulak Quotes

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

Activists are killed in Mexico.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

The record of Arab regimes is disgraceful and outrageous … worse than that of the occupier or the colonialist.

There is no military government on earth that does not have human rights abuses.

There were 40,000—45,000 people killed. They were no less important than I am. I want to bring Habre to justice. I can name names and clear up many things. I am ready to face justice as well for what I have done …. During the night, prisoners were executed discretely …. I knew that everyone I arrested would be tortured.

A source of embarrassment for Libyans, Gadhafi has never been a joke: disappearances, a police state, zero freedom of expression, and poverty for at least a third of the population of country tremendously wealthy thanks to oil.

The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

Bhutto's regime is remembered for having one of the worst human rights records in Pakistan's history, and her government did not allow the media freedoms she criticizes Musharraf for crushing.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

[The new Congolese] security forces committed unlawful killings, torture, beatings, acts of rape, extortion and other abuses, largely with impunity.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

In a country with glaring evidence of persuasive corruption and impunity at all tiers of government, it is morally unjustifiable to amputate the hands of these impoverished people for petty theft, in the name of Puritanism.