Aidan White Quotes

"In a democracy you do not have hooded men carrying assault rifles breaking into the offices of a newspaper and a television station in the middle of the night and beating up journalists and other staff. To talk of press freedom in such circumstances is grotesque."

"When the world's leading democracy scorns the notion of justice for the victims of violence in its jurisdiction, it gives confidence to those who target journalists in countries where freedom hardly exists."

"The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. But they are seriously mistaken if they think this will discourage journalists from expressing their solidarity with colleagues in Tunisia."

"There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear."

"Iraqi reporters and foreign correspondents have suffered heavily in this conflict,"

"What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom."