“It is freedom that we want, my brother.”

An Ivorian at the Safi detention centre decrying the government’s 18-month detention policy and pleading to be released from ‘prison’.

“Detention is not pursued by way of punishment... but to safeguard Malta’s internal security.”

Home Affairs Ministry sticking to its policy and insisting rioting is no way to criticise detention.

“We had to create a human chain to get them to the ship.”

Director of Defence Vanessa Frazier recounting how a family with five children turned up in Tunisia just as the ferry shuttling Libyan refugees back home was about to leave.

“When the magistrate describes the atrocities you faced in childhood and you, a grown man in your 40s, have to run out and vomit, you have a serious problem.”

Lawyer Patrick Valentino describing the psychological problems the men who were abused by priests at St Joseph Home still face.

“Highly irresponsible and unacceptable.”

Ombudsman Joseph Said Pullicino slamming education authorities for leaving children aged three to eight waiting outside the school gates at Mġarr without supervision.

“Crazy prescriptions.”

A pharmacist describing cases where doctors prescribe antibiotics when they were not needed.