political prisoner
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“For now, they’re not going to get out,” said Carlos David Guillén, a former political prisoner and ex-serviceman who has debriefed American officials on the officers jailed in Venezuela.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Playing a hard-line political prisoner in 1983 Argentina, his Valentin starts the film rejecting everything it stands for: romance, fantasy, overwhelming emotions.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
The latter of these books was written while Ngũgĩ was being held in a Nairobi jail as a political prisoner.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
Now he is vying for votes in a military-managed poll starting on Sunday, coveting the former seat of the country's best known political prisoner -- Aung San Suu Kyi.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
Another prisoner in his barracks had a red triangle, so he was a political prisoner who had opposed Hitler.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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