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political prisoner

someone imprisoned for holding, expressing, or acting in accord with particular political beliefs
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North Korea "continues to deny the very existence of these political prisons," the report says.
Jurists: Kim commits crimes against humanity
Kirby said the team's findings, based on testimony from hundreds of victims, defectors and witnesses, were unequivocal, and demanded closure of political prison camps believed to hold up to 120,000 people.
China rejects North Korean crimes report, hits chance of prosecution
In North Korea, thousands of people were held in political prison camps despite not having committed any crime, and were subjected to harsh conditions.
Armed conflicts see thousands displaced
Shin Dong-hyuk: I was born in a political prison camp in North Korea.
'I Escaped a North Korean Prison Camp': an interview about life inside the Hermit Kingdom's gulag
In her statement, Pillay said at least 200,000 people were believed to be interned in North Korea's 'elaborate network' of political prison camps, and that survivors of the camps whom she had spoken to 'described a system that represented the very antithesis of international human rights norms'.
UN rights chief calls for probe into 'deplorable' human rights conditions in N Korea
In response, North Korea insists that the political prison camps do not exist and that "there can be no human rights problem in their people centered socialism.
Change may be tantalizing, but North Korea is no Arab Spring
And I just raced through the new Escape from Camp 14, the story of the only person born in one of North Koreas political prison camps who is known to have escaped.
Our summer reading list
Mian Iftikhar maintained that he loved literature very much adding that when he was in jail as political prison, he wrote two afsanas namely "Pansy" and "Sur Saikal" which depicted his love for literature.
KP beautiful banquet of different mother languages: Minister
Mapanje recalls his time in prison, where he struggled to maintain his sanity and some semblance of freedom amid the oppression and constriction of political prison life.
Jack Mapanje: And Crocodiles Are Hungry at Night
An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 persons are held in political prison camps in remote areas of the country; many of these prisoners were not duly convicted of a criminal offense.
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (Tier 3)
Haifa Zangana spent her younger years in a political prison in Iraq.
Behind the mask
As we will see, political prisoner/writers might most clearly be distinguished from common criminals who become writers, not in the value or even comprehensiveness of their texts, but in the political prison writer's presumption of a testamentary value, and the self-consciousness of that value, in his/her writing.
Toward a prison poetics

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