Amal Clooney Quotes

My friends and family in Turkey could be arrested just for talking to me.

Governments whose authority is ebbing have been increasingly brazen in their attempts to silence critics.

In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

The government that has imprisoned more journalists than any other in the world was democratically elected.

The people are really afraid of what's going on in Russia; they are suffering with fear, sitting at home, doors locked, because they are afraid of their government.

Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'

If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and bloggers are arrested all the time.

May 20, 2017, was one of the scariest days of my life. It was the day I realized I was being hunted by Erdogan.

The exercise of politics is criminalized in Venezuela.

We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association with me.

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

When I speak of the fear, intimidation, arrests, and public shaming of intellectuals and religious leaders who dare to speak their minds, and then I tell you that I'm from Saudi Arabia, are you surprised?

To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.

Armed police at my apartment doors in 2011 was scary, but the sudden - and not exactly legal - takeover of 48 per cent of VKontakte, that coincided with a fabricated case against myself in April 2013, was more frightening.

It's just not normal when one after another opposition politician ends up in jail.