Detain Quotes

You don't know what will make it your turn to be detained next and if you are in detention you don't know what it will take to get released. - Irene Khan

Yet our research shows that detainee abuses were widespread, and few people have truly been brought to justice. - Meg Satterthwaite

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism. - Jim Ryun

Would not have have resonated had it not been for the United States' extensive abuse of Muslim detainees and the government's failure to fully investigate all of those implicated. - Reed Brody

Whoever mistreated those detainees, or any detainees in Iraq, will bear legal responsibility and be brought to justice. - Hussein Kamal

When I read his book Dark Clouds at Dawn I thought that, my goodness, this is probably the only ex-detainee that's willing to speak about his experiences and is not in exile. - Martyn See

When Germany awoke, a man's home was no longer his castle. He could be seized by private individuals, could claim no protection from the police, could be indefinitely detained without preferment of charges; his property could be seized, his verbal and written communications overheard and perused; he no longer had the right to foregather with his fellow countrymen, and his newspapers might no longer freely express their opinions. - Douglas Reed

What we've got to do is look at the individual that was indeed detained and what was he doing, regardless of what his profession is... That's a 'no'. - Rick Lynch

We've seen a series of half-hearted investigations and slaps on the wrist. The government seems more interested in managing the detainee abuse scandal than in addressing the underlying problems that caused it. - Tom Malinowski