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
Rights NGO Foro Penal said it counted 90 political prisoner releases since January 8, while interim president Delcy Rodriguez reported that 406 people have been freed since December.
From Barron's • Jan. 17, 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
Cristobal’s father had worked for the Cuban national police before becoming a political prisoner and fleeing to the U.S. in 1961.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
This is a journal entry oj what occurred at La 40 on Monday, April 11th, 1960, to me, a female political prisoner.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
