political prisoner
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someone who is imprisoned because of their political views
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Well, 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.
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.
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
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.
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.
“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.