Political Prisoner (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who is imprisoned because of their political views.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The government denied that the activist was a political prisoner, claiming she was arrested for violating the country's laws.
- She had spent years advocating for human rights before being jailed as a political prisoner by the oppressive regime.
- Her family had been searching for her for months, but the government refused to disclose any information about their loved one, the jailed political prisoner.
- After years of imprisonment, the country's leader finally admitted that the man was wrongly accused and released him as a gesture of goodwill to calm the protesting crowd who considered him a political prisoner.
- As a human rights advocate, she worked tirelessly to free the countless political prisoners held in the country's notorious prisons.