political prisoner
Example Sentences
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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
We know of this lullaby because Liebeskind, who was later killed at Sachsenhausen, transmitted the song there to Alexander Kulisiewicz, a Polish musician and political prisoner who had an eidetic memory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
John Coale was attending an event at the British Embassy in Washington when the State Department called, with a request: Could he go to Belarus and retrieve a political prisoner with an American passport?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 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
It was exceedingly odd that a convicted prisoner like Dinath was permitted to stay together with a political prisoner awaiting trial.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
