Yulia Tymoshenko Quotes

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

There are no political prisoners, only imprisoned politicians.

After I got arrested the Filipino government unshackled me. I knew first-hand how they violated my rights and I could speak about that from experience.

When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history.

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

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was arrested before he could start his own presidential campaign.

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

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.