| NOUN | a political prisoner | political prisoners | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- More recently, Utah Phillips considered Joe Hill to have been a political prisoner who was executed for his political agitation through songwriting.
- Henriette Roosenburg (26 May 1916 – 1972) was a Dutch journalist and political prisoner.
- Timerman became the single most famous Argentine political prisoner of the Dirty War.
- During the German occupation, he was arrested as a political prisoner and died in a German concentration camp in 1944.
- A separate demonstration demanded the release of the political prisoner Ján Čarnogurský (later Prime Minister of Slovakia) in front of the Palace of Justice.
- The Earl of Arundel was not executed for his role, but was instead imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he died as a political prisoner, and the Earl of Sussex was actually a loyal supporter of Elizabeth who would not have tried to overthrow her.
- In 2018, she signed an appeal of the American PEN Center in defense of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, a political prisoner in Russia.
- The Soviet journalist Yevgenia Ginzburg was a long-term political prisoner who spent time in the Soviet prisons, Gulag camps and settlements from 1938 to 1955.
- Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 film "The Last Emperor" presented a portrait of Manchukuo through the memories of Emperor Puyi, during his days as a political prisoner in the People's Republic of China.
- A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention.
- In the context of the apartheid, the year after the liberation of political prisoner Nelson Mandela, the Parliament of South Africa repeals the Population Registration Act, 1950, overturning the racial classification of the population, a key component of apartheid.
- ʻAbdu'l-Bahá remained a political prisoner there until the Young Turk Revolution freed him in 1908 at the age of 64.
- In 2012, the Clinton announced the US will exchange ambassadors with Myanmar, after a landmark Burmese political prisoner amnesty.
- Amnesty International neither takes a position on the guilt or innocence of Abu-Jamal nor classifies him as a political prisoner.
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