political prisoner

noun

: a person put in prison because of his or her political beliefs

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José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty-nine. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 16 May 2025 Before leading the country, Mujica spent more than a decade as a political prisoner under Uruguay’s military dictatorship, including several years in solitary confinement. Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 Her husband, Sergei Tikhanovsky, is a political prisoner. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2025 Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, a former political prisoner of the East German secret police searches for the truth after learning his brother spied on him for the regime, and discovers the lasting effects of living in a surveillance state. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for political prisoner

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“Political prisoner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/political%20prisoner. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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