political prisoner
Example Sentences
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His father, a restaurateur, spent years as a political prisoner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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
Freddy Guevara, a member of Machado’s coalition who was a political prisoner for some three years in Venezuela, said he is still hopeful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 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
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
