How to Use political prisoner in a Sentence
political prisoner
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In the prison, she is forced to wear a yellow badge on her chest identifying her as a political prisoner.
—Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
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My uncle was 25, and his stint as a political prisoner lasted eight months.
—Martina Ibáñez-Baldor, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
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The return of the world’s tallest political prisoner to play in a basketball game in her home state seemed a little surreal, and not just because a member of the Phoenix Mercury got the royal treatment.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
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His real crime: being the political prisoner Putin fears most.
—Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 27 June 2023
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Méndez said in her response that her father was a political prisoner in Cuba.
—Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
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Alexei Navalny was being held captive — a political prisoner — and likely put to death in a faraway Russian prison 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
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So for every political prisoner that Egypt releases, three more are jailed.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
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The prize for 1935 had been awarded to another political prisoner: Carl von Ossietzky, in Germany.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
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Sharansky is a friend of Jimmy Lai, the entrepreneur and democracy activist who is a political prisoner in Hong Kong.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
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These islands housed one of the penal colony's most famous convicts: political prisoner Alfred Dreyfus.
—Karlijn Korpershoek, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
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Any project with Panahi’s involvement is automatically under the microscope of the Iranian regime, given that the filmmaker has been in and out of jail as a political prisoner.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
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On Fox, Trump was treated simultaneously as a political prisoner, a martyr, and a metaphor.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
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Félix Maradiaga is a Nicaraguan democracy leader and a former political prisoner.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
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Scarpia proclaims that Cavaradossi assisted an escaped political prisoner and imprisons him.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
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Navalny was Russia's highest profile political prisoner.
—Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024
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