Unjust Detention Quotes

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

Turkey jails more journalists than any other country in the world—more than China, more than Iran

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.

During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.

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

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

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

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

Sergei Magnitsky was an incredibly intelligent, principled and idealistic man who was this sort of positive face of the new Russia. He was in jail, really, as my proxy, and so it was impossible for me to sleep. I felt guilty taking a shower because I knew he couldn't.

Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and financial costs.

Since 1979, the majority of victims of the Iranian regime have been the Iranian people themselves.

I'd like to think that if I were in prison for a crime I didn't commit, someone would be trying to get me the hell out of there.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

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.

In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.

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.

Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.

Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.

There are so many people who have committed real crimes who are free in Chile. So the fact that these persons today are detained for helping me exercise the right of freedom of expression seems very sad.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear — fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.