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
The announcement came hours after the release of Peruvian-American political prisoner Arturo Gallino Rullier, whom the Foro Penal group said was on his way to the United States.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 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
It normally took years for a political prisoner to raise his status from D to C. We disdained the classification system.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
