Aidan White Freedom Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

The fight for media freedom and democracy does not take place in one country,