political prisoner

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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

She herself is the daughter of a former defense minister who died in prison in 2021, and the sister of another political prisoner held for "terrorism."

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Freddy Guevara, a member of Machado’s coalition who was a political prisoner for some three years in Venezuela, said he is still hopeful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 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

Another prisoner in his barracks had a red triangle, so he was a political prisoner who had opposed Hitler.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren