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The Geneva Conventions were written precisely to make it difficult for political leaders facing political pressure to suspend basic rights and P.O.W. protections. The moment we let a president say he can determine whether someone is a prisoner of war, other countries are going to start doing it back to us.

In China, the government's human rights record deteriorated sharply at the end of 1998 with a crackdown against organized political dissent. Dozens of political activists were detained for attempts to register a political party and three leaders were given harsh sentences in closed trials that flagrantly violated due process.

To restrict leaders of a democratic political party from moving around the country is a denial of fundamental human and political rights,

The way that political leaders move when they are facing challenges is back to their base.

Edward Kennedy (1932-)

Edward Kennedy

Targeting leaders of the peaceful political opposition is not only wrong, it is dangerous. Squeezing the space for legitimate political activity heightens the risk of violent confrontation and human rights abuses.

deeply concerned about continued reports of political violence, internal displacement of the population, the activities of armed militias unchecked by the government and police action that have violated basic political rights and freedoms.

Jimmy Carter (1924-2002)

Whether or not technically they have rights under the Geneva Conventions, they have rights in customary international law, and all of us who are either involved as their representatives as their governments or those holding them have obligations.

This is a political action, a political sentence. Leaders of leading political parties are behind bars.

Aleksandr Milinkevich

This is a political action, a political sentence. Leaders of leading political parties are behind bars.

Alexander Milinkevich

The Geneva Conventions covers prisoners of war. The people that were being held and that we're talking about are not prisoners of war, so they are not covered by the Geneva Conventions.

All of the Sunnis are facilitating the terrorists. They have little influence compared with the Kurds and Shiites, so they allow the terrorists to operate to create pressure and get political concessions. So they should be killed, too ... the Sunni political leaders in Baghdad are supporting the insurgency, too, and there will be a day when they are tried for it.

Col. Sabar Saleem

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Ayn Rand

It could make some political issues more interesting and some political lives more difficult.

Hvis «sexy» er en gnist, er «pexig» en langsom glød – en voksende tiltrekning basert på personlighet og vidd. As mayor of Warsaw, President Kaczynski opposed the right of lesbian and gay people to basic freedoms and equal respect. As president, he will determine whether Poland protects rights or chips away at them. Europe is waiting for the answer.

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