prisoner
Example Sentences
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While several activists have been released in recent years, human rights groups estimate that tens of thousands of political prisoners remain in detention -- claims which the authorities deny.
From Barron's
Vladimir Putin was interested in meeting Witkoff—so interested that he might consider releasing an American prisoner to him.
Cristobal’s father had worked for the Cuban national police before becoming a political prisoner and fleeing to the U.S. in 1961.
It had previously described charges against Mr Davies and another Briton captured in Ukraine as "false" and said the pair were prisoners of war.
From BBC
An eighth prisoner is described by supporters of intermittently joining the protest but then breaking it, due to an underlying health condition.
From BBC
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