How To Use Political prisoner In A Sentence
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Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.
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The law also offers former exiles, political prisoners and relatives of the victims the option to apply to a committee to clear their names.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were each sentenced to 29 years in prison but were released in 1992 as part of an amnesty granted to political prisoners, having served only five years of their sentence.
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She called on the government to speed up the process of release for hundreds of political prisoners still in jail.
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As if that were not enough, it keeps its eye on the fate of political prisoners and other untried detainees in 65 countries and runs 16 major hospitals in Africa and Asia.
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Mollie Steimer, a leading anarchist and advocate for the rights of political prisoners, was a codefendant in one of the most publicized antiradical trials in American history.
Mollie Steimer.
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He pardoned more than 1,000 political prisoners and allowed exiles to return.
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The infractions are limitless: The endless list of political prisoners and Mumia Abu-Jamal readily come to mind as attestment to this fact.
Black America Under Siege: Without and Within
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They are demanding the release of all political prisoners.
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And these men were political prisoners, who knew but what, in the seesaw way of politics, some of them might be in office sometime?
COUP D'ETAT
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This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is charged with causing the deaths of 103 political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.
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They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates
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Enemy prisoners, former Russian POWs, civilian repatriates, and the civilian criminal and political prisoners collectively made up the convict labour force of several million souls.
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The report says there is widespread and routine torture of political prisoners in the country.
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Over 2000 political prisoners were executed that night!
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At least 42 people were arrested in the east of the island, to derail a planned protest calling for the release of political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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This event marks the 21st birthday of the world's youngest political prisoner called the Panchen Lama, the second highest Tibetan spiritual leader.
WN.com - Articles related to After Chinese Re-education, Monks Regret Uprising
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The prison was where the president's henchmen tortured and executed many political prisoners.
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Hundreds of political prisoners arrested in previous years continue to be held without trial.
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Official records, opened in 1990 when glasnost was still in vogue, show that Stalin had every intention of treating the Poles as political prisoners.
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We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.
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Release all patriotic and revolutionary political prisoners and lift the ban on political parties.
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Political prisoners were released and a schedule for democratic elections organised.
Times, Sunday Times
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They also agitated for free speech and assembly, the liberation of political prisoners and for the abolition of grain requisitioning.
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We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.
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In March 1990 six more political prisoners were reportedly prepared for execution.
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So along with the other ten million weapons violations, Missiles that violated the range agreements, chemical delivery systems, uncombined components for Mustard Gas, testing of biological agents on political prisoners that could have caused a plague; now one of the canisters and there are probably others, has been used.
Sarin-dipity
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He was in no sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly did six years in jail.
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It may speak of the plight of the political prisoner but that is just one of many possibilities.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have found that torture is systematically used by police forces against persons who refuse to 'cooperate' -- political prisoners as well as suspects of common crimes," Nowak, an Austrian law professor, said.
Mail & Guardian Online
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The political prisoner had been held in complete isolation .
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Following the collapse of Reza Shah's dictatorship, with the new conditions prevailing, a large group of political prisoners were released.
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During this time the government ran its own reign of terror - tens of thousands of people were made political prisoners, were executed on the streets, or simply disappeared.
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Leaders also revealed plans for a 48-hour stoppage on May 1 against the dollarization of the currency and for freedom for political prisoners.
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It must be said that in a direct sense we owe it in part to your sustained and principled support for our struggle that our President, Comrade Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, and many of my other fellow former political prisoners have gained release; that our national Chairman, Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo and other political exiles have come back home; that the African National Congress and all other organizations of our people have been either unbanned or derestricted; and that many of the fundamental laws of apartheid have been repealed.
Statement by Walter Sisulu, Deputy President, ANC at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid on the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
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Those people who took up weapons to defend themselves are political prisoners.
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Where were the political prisoners in the student consciousness of the late nineties?
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He was in no sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly did six years in jail.
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The organization is arguing for the release of political prisoners .
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He held out an olive branch to the opposition by releasing 42 political prisoners.
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We must continue to work arduously for the release of so many other political prisoners whose names and faces are known but to their families and their torturers.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound!
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Add to that a bus tour of the quarry where political prisoners excavated limestone and dug themselves a privy, and the beach where those who are now the country's leaders gathered kelp, and the value is beyond question.
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The jail scenes are the most convincing, as Miguel attempts to organize and defend the political prisoners, while Jorge drifts toward and takes the part of the more backward elements.
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The first step needed for building confidence is for the regime to release all political prisoners.
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Concern has been expressed about the death in detention of a number of political prisoners.
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Inge believes the prospect of being posted to guard political prisoners, and the cruel conditions her son was expecting to have to enforce there, pushed him to attempt to escape.
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Mr. BERNSTEIN: Well, the government acknowledges 3,000 political prisoners; that is people in jail for what they loosely call counterrevolutionary crimes.
The Coming Conflict with China
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Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were the political prisoners, sent to concentration camps, who continued to help the Allies.
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And his late, superb "Le Chateau de Chillon" 1874, a Swiss castle famed for its many political prisoners that Courbet may have also studied in photographs, offers a haunting lesson in the formal and evocative beauty entwined in the landscape.
The Rise and Fall of a Master
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I look forward to seeing the DPP and the KMT cooperate to resolve unsettled human rights cases and bring justice to former political prisoners.
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The political prisoner had been held in complete isolation .
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They had demanded the release of political prisoners and had reportedly been physically assaulted.
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It jumps out at you that there is clearly a limit in terms of topics, because never in all this time have they touched on hot button issues such as the travel restrictions, the lack of freedom of expression, the penalization of those who think differently, the political prisoners, the demand for direct election of the president, or the need for a press less intertwined with the apparatus of governance.
Yoani Sanchez: A "Letters to the Editor" Feature That Mocks Free Speech
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Human Rights groups are calling for the release of political prisoners.
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The report says there is widespread and routine torture of political prisoners in the country.
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Monaghan joined a number of men carrying a banner bearing the slogan ‘Free all political prisoners now’.
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These were then used to hold political prisoners captive.
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As well as being a former artist, Jiang had been a Red Guard, shepherd, political prisoner, radical news-sheet publisher, Maoist lecturer, and Tiananmen Square protester.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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By the end of May nearly 100 of an estimated 2 000 political prisoners had been freed.
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He released the remaining political prisoners and restored democratic rule.
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He called for the immediate release of all political prisoners.
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But General Musharraf needs to be put under international pressure if he's to lift emergency, retire as chief of army staff, hold an honest election, ungag the media and free the political prisoners.
CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2007
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The government granted an amnesty to all political prisoners.
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Elections are sham, the press is censored, the jails hold some political prisoners.
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Growing pressure for democratic change On Oct. 3 the Appeal Court overturned the conviction and sentencing of two prominent political prisoners.
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He was a political prisoner .
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The political prisoners starved to death
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By the end of May nearly 100 of an estimated 2 000 political prisoners had been freed.
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She appeared on television to plead the cause of political prisoners everywhere.
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They did manage to trace the horseshoes from the horse to an Italian blacksmith and they found a few other odds and ends — a flyer left near the bombsite that had been printed with stamps that said 'free the political prisoners or it will be death to all of you.'
Terror on Wall Street
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Both offered the prospect of an end to economic sanctions if the civilian government freed all political prisoners and went through with promised reforms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Political prisoners were released and a schedule for democratic elections organised.
Times, Sunday Times
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The organization is arguing for the release of political prisoners .
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They are demanding the release of all political prisoners.
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This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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China has many camps for political prisoners
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He called for the immediate release of all political prisoners.
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The stories were smuggled out and later compiled by his friend, a political prisoner living in exile.
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The guards in and around the prison deliberately provoke the political prisoners.
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The fight for the dissolution of repressive bodies and the release of political prisoners was forever linked with the demand for recognition of Basque sovereignty.
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A later part, however, refers to amnesties being granted only to ‘all pardoned political prisoners’.
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This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world
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A resolution on the issue of Political Prisoners, most of whom are still serving prison terms instituted by the previous regime.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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She appeared on television to plead the cause of political prisoners everywhere.
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This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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And these men were political prisoners, who knew but what, in the seesaw way of politics, some of them might be in office sometime?
COUP D'ETAT
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For that reason, Burmese oppositions and the human rights organizations around the world are urging the SPDC to make an honest commitment releasing unconditionally and immediately all detained political prisoners, restore the democratic rights, and enter political dialogue with the leaders of the NLD and the non-Burman ethnic nationalities so as to stop the crisis in Burma as well as to preserve the stabilities in the region.
Burma's Orwellian Regime Deserves Tougher Sanctions
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The origin of Coup d' Etat is obscure, but it is believed that the game was first played by political prisoners in the dungeons of France over two centuries ago.
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We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners
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At least 42 people were arrested in the east of the island, to derail a planned protest calling for the release of political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Political prisoners were released and a schedule for democratic elections organised.
Times, Sunday Times
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They invited Amnesty International to consider their plight, claiming their jailed comrades were political prisoners.
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This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amnesty International has consistently called for the release of political prisoners.
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Both local and international human rights groups have criticized the handling of his trials as unfair, with Amnesty International labeling Anwar a political prisoner.
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A further 23 political prisoners were executed there in October 2001.
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Political prisoner probably whose offence had been "ratting" -- and so his punishment was made "to fit the crime," as Mr. GILBERT's _Mikado_ used to observe.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891
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Surprisingly favourable blogpost at the Washington Post
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I think of political prisoners on hunger strikes around the world; my suffering is naught compared to theirs.
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The Stalinist model files described in this section survived in Romania until 1962, when political prisoners started to be amnestied and the secret police underwent the fundamental changes discussed in the next section.
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The new government is to grant a free pardon to all political prisoners.
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This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hundred years ago, during the Tsarist Russian occupation, kibitkas, or horse wagons, were leaving the Citadel's gallows filled with Polish political prisoners.
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The law also offers former exiles, political prisoners and relatives of the victims the option to apply to a committee to clear their names.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is charged with causing the deaths of 103 political prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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That country has a long, inglorious record of dealing harshly with political prisoners.
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They had demanded the release of political prisoners and had reportedly been physically assaulted.
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Tunnel to Tanto Grande" the story of a daring escape staged by political prisoners in Peru.
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Families of political prisoners also had to bear discriminatory practices for many years.
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Most political prisoners were freed under the terms of the amnesty.
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A number of political prisoners have been released since the late 1980s.
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So in the case of Cuba, this would mean, changing the form of government, releasing political prisoners, giving an atomic wedgy to Hugo Chavez, etc.; or with Iran, ending their nuclear program, changing their political system, cutting off funding to Hamas and Hezbollah, etc.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Instead activists from Memorial, a Russian NGO defending human rights in post-Soviet states, a Palestinian gynaecologist and a writer and political prisoner from Eritrea were placed on this year's shortlist by MEPs.
Archive 2009-10-01
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Political prisoner and activist George Jackson articulated brilliantly, however, that those poor people who commit crimes are the ‘most abused victims of an unrighteous order.’
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The government granted an amnesty to all political prisoners.
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Most political prisoners were freed under the terms of the amnesty.
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A key point of the agreement stipulates an amnesty for GAM fighters and other political prisoners.
