political prisoner in English

noun
1
a person imprisoned for their political beliefs or actions.
Amnesty International estimates that 1,500 political prisoners remain in Burmese jails.

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1. He was a political prisoner .

2. The political prisoner is pardoned by the president.

3. The political prisoner was executed after a secret trial.

4. We must get him off this political prisoner kick.

5. Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner for many years.

6. But he was not the criminal type. Political prisoner?

7. The political prisoner had been held in complete isolation .

8. The government granted an amnesty to all political prisoner.

9. And not everybody on death row was a political prisoner.

10. The goal is modest, like winning the release of a political prisoner

11. Adopt a family whose breadwinner is a political prisoner or has been executed.

12. Pham Hong Son - a medical doctor and political prisoner from 2002 to 2006.

13. And not everybody row was a political prisoner -- there were some really bad people there.

14. He was briefly a political prisoner of the regime of Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza in 1985.

15. The following day Coetsee paid an impromptu unannounced visit to the world's most famous political prisoner.

16. In June, Vietnam stripped former political prisoner Pham Minh Hoang of his Vietnamese citizenship and deported him to France.

17. After two months in prison, I heard the first news about why I was being held as a political prisoner.

18. In June, the authorities stripped former political prisoner Pham Minh Hoang of his Vietnamese citizenship and deported him to France.

19. Anti-government protesters hoist a released political prisoner in the Pearl Square roundabout late on Feb. 22 in Manama, Bahrain.

20. Indeed, he had the advantage of scripting it as the father of the Soviet H-bomb, dissident and a political prisoner.

21. Even the act of showing solidarity by visiting the houses of former political prisoners or welcoming a political prisoner home has triggered violence against activists.

22. Nguyen Kim Nhan, 64—former political prisoner, arrested June 7, 2011, in Bac Giang for allegedly conducting propaganda against the state (article 88 of the penal code).

23. Ladislav Šmejkal, who learned the truth when he was a political prisoner, explains: “At the mine where we worked, we had access to cooling towers of large mine compressors.

24. Unidentified thugs attacked the house of labor campaigner and former political prisoner Do Thi Minh Hanh for several nights in June and July, and police failed to intervene to stop the attacks.

25. [Row 1: Pham Doan Trang before and after the attack, and the broken helmet that was thrown by the side of the road after the beating Row 2: Nguyen Tin in a fund-raising event for political prisoner Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh ("Mother Mushroom") and after the a]