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internal exile

American

noun

a state of comparative isolation imposed upon certain political dissidents within the former Soviet Union, in which the subject was forced to live in a remote and often unfamiliar place and in which freedom of movement and personal contact with family, friends, and associates were severely restricted.

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internal exile

In 1980 he was sent into internal exile, which lasted six years.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

He was sentenced to internal exile in the northern republic of Komi in the 1980s and returned to Moscow by 1985.

From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2023

Most Syrians still suffer in internal exile or as refugees abroad.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2022

It details the overlap of his life and career with that of his father, Ai Qing, a famous poet who was sent into internal exile in 1957, the year Ai Weiwei was born.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2022

They were determined to lessen her influence and did it with a brazen and shameless act: they sent her into internal exile.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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