Noun
someone who is imprisoned because of their political views
Source: WordNetWell, not so much politics. A couple of my songs have a social commentary, like Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice). I really can't escape from politics because my father was a political prisoner in Cuba; he went to Vietnam. But I try to stay away from politics as much as possible. Gloria Estefan
As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release. Jackson Browne
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. Leonard Peltier
A political prisoner can also be someone that has been denied bail unfairly, denied parole when it would reasonably have been given to a prisoner charged with a comparable crime, or special powers may be invoked by the judiciary. Source: Internet
A. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Part I, comments to Chapter 5 And of the building of Northern Railway Labor Camp (" Sevzheldorlag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, "An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp. Source: Internet
“I was appalled,” said Mohamed Soltan, a former Egyptian political prisoner and friend of Mr. Khashoggi, who described Ms. Attiah as one of the key journalists on the story. Source: Internet