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Definitions

political prisoner

NOUN

prisoner of war

Synonyms

WEAK

enemy prisoner of war pow prisoner of conscience

Example Sentences

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One Tehran-based civil-society activist and former political prisoner said Iranians were truly hopeful two weeks ago as the war began.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 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

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

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

From the moment she arrived at the District Jail, Alice Paul asked for political prisoner status.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling