The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.
Lawyers are for only what is right.
Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.