“What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.” HumansRecordsRightsHappenedPrisonHuman RightsIraqConventionsViolationMonstrousGenevaAbu GhraibGeneva ConventionViolation Of Human Rights Author:Carlos Fuentes
“In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.” HumansRealOrderExistenceRightsPrisonHuman RightsDenyDoing RightReal FreedomBasic Human Rights Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of Intelligence and their people. This is why we witness a number of journalists and human rights activists, my colleagues, and a number of feminists, in prison.” PeopleHumansImportantProblemLostNumbersRightsInfluenceIndependenceCourtPrisonHuman RightsFeministWitnessJournalistIranActivistMinistryColleagues Author:Shirin Ebadi
“I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindBookStatesHappensRunningProcessRightsEvolutionPrisonThreatIncludingCivil RightsInsanityProtestHospitalsMainstreamSmoothLinkedSchizophreniaMainstream Society Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl