"Political prisoners" refers to individuals who are imprisoned for their political beliefs or actions, rather than committing a crime. They are often incarcerated as a result of speaking out against the government, advocating for human rights, or engaging in peaceful protests.
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The commission's most important task was to determine the number
of political prisoners and to document their cases.
And when a group of mothers of young men who were being held
as political prisoners approached her and asked her to help them free their sons, she said yes.
More than anything else, the commission wanted to provide
former political prisoners and victims of torture with moral compensation.
Over the next few decades, the building transformed into a prison and, according to several former inmates, a torture chamber
for political prisoners.
I remember the last time I was in jail: it was an easy matter for me to identify
with political prisoners that I was hearing about all over the world.
The government claims to have ended its organ harvesting practices, in
which political prisoners were strapped to tables and cut open, but academics point to a lack of transparency.
But many of his detractors look to Raisi's past for perhaps his single most disqualifying factor: his alleged involvement in a committee that decided the fate of thousands of
political prisoners who disappeared in the late 1980s.
The texts include literary passages as well as transcriptions from
political prisoners in besieged cities such as Aleppo, turning testimonials into visual forms and producing a sense of simultaneously urgent appeal and timeless, collective memory.
«There is no reason to wait, there is no reason why we should ask other countries to
free political prisoners there when you have one right here in your home, in Chicago, Illinois.
«Chile Emergency Exhibition,» 383 West Broadway, New York, NY, organized by the U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners
Taking its name from the prison in Lima's sixth police district, El Sexto traces the consequences of environment on the attitudes and actions of a young
political prisoner named Gabriel.
Lynne's husband Ralph Poynter and their dear friend Betty Davis, both long time Green Party activists, worked tirelessly to bring attention not only to Lynne's treatment in a cruel criminal justice system but to that of scores of
political prisoners languishing in prison for decades.
In it, Ryggen combines images taken from news reports and her own imagination to show the execution of theatre director Henry Gleditsch and other
political prisoners by the Nazis on 7 October 1942.
They were known as «The Rabbits», those seventy - four young Polish women and girls held as
political prisoners at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
The film's opening minutes display life in the Gulag, where true criminals reign in violence over
political prisoners like Janusz (Jim Sturgess), a Polish lieutenant whose tortured wife finally broke down and confessed to inflamed charges against him.
I understand why some people were impressed with Hunger, which dramatized the 1981 hunger strike of IRA member Bobby Sands to protest cruelty in the British prison system; McQueen re-created the experience of
Irish political prisoners with such heaviness and specific detail that you could empathize with their suffering.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei «s new exhibition @Large sees the former
political prisoner come full circle by presenting a body of work based on the theme of political imprisonment on the site of one of this country's oldest prison facilities, Alcatraz.
[jounal] Salo, J. / 2004 / Association between self and other representations and posttraumatic adjustment
among political prisoners / Anxiety, Stress, and Coping 17: 421 ~ 439
Last year, the company admitted that during the 1980s, while Kamprad was still Ikea's CEO, the company
used political prisoners doing forced labor in its factories in East Germany.
One of China's elite prisons has become overcrowded with
political prisoners due to President Xi Jinping's increased crackdown on corruption.
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan In December, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Russia's most high -
profile political prisoners and the former CEO of Yukos Oil — at one point Russia's largest oil company — was abruptly released.
The Church's Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, and Havana's Cardinal Jaime Ortega also successfully negotiated an agreement between Cuba and Spain that allowed 52
Cuban political prisoners held since March 2003 to immigrate to Spain under provisions of political asylum.
The Chinese Gulag — the so - called laogai, a prison system virtually unknown in the West — still holds the
most political prisoners in the world, and they live under barbaric conditions.
Likewise, if one is silent
about political prisoners in Vietnam while protesting such prisoners in South Korea, one does not really care about human rights.
It's the dead - from - the - neck - up media that is pitting us against each other by publishing this drivel when they should be far more concerned about a truckload other things like, gee, I don't know, 17 trillion in debt, the Obama white house which seems unable to go even a day without lying their faces off and the «Affordable» health care that is not - so - cleverly disguised as deliberate economic sabotage and will
create political prisoners in the very near future.
Bodies is unquestionably about scientia ¯ it doesn't fiddle with what humanity means and it doesn't take life (leaving
Chinese political prisoners to the side).
Raji Surani, a Gazan, lawyer committed to the defense of
Gazan political prisoners, claims that since 1970 the torture of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons has been more subtle — it is designed to terrorize without leaving physical marks.
He said he wanted to see the release of
more political prisoners and called for «real political solutions» to be found to ethnic conflicts, where only limited progress has been achieved so far.
The «Minimalist» position is that the Holocaust (which means Total Destruction) refers to the targeted extermination of the Jews (and perhaps the racial minorities) and not to the Russian POWs, Gays, and
Political Prisoners because Jews were uniquely singled out in Mein Kampf and other Nazi writings.
At the same time torture continues in Burma's jails, with almost 2,000
political prisoners still in jail, and the government denying they even exist.
Locals in East Harlem remember Rivera as a
brave political prisoner who was sent to prison for supporting Puerto Rican independence.
«In the spring, the prison guards allowed an attack by Iranian religious thugs who beat up many inmates in Omid's section, Ward 350,
where political prisoners were held.»
Rosa Clemente (a guest of Susan Sarandon), a community organizer, political commentator, and independent journalist who has focused
on political prisoners, voter engagement, and Puerto Rican independence.
As a ravaged former
political prisoner given to mocking the Mockingjay, Jena Malone is — as usual — delightfully twisted: She kicks every movie she's in into a queerer (in the old sense) gear.
He's there to help his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney) out of a jam, but John is barely out of the cab from the airport when things start exploding, drawing father and son into a ridiculous yarn involving a
Russian political prisoner and a secret file.
Rather like Naomi Watts, alongside whom she is currently nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Riva has often been called upon to embody suffering saints, most memorably in Gillo Pontecorvo's Kapò, where she plays a
delicate political prisoner who is spiritually broken in a concentration camp.
Her arrival practically coincides with the arrival of
political prisoner Ramon Esperanza (Nero, Django Strikes Again), a South American despot who is being escorted in by the military to stand trial for his drug smuggling crimes.
But still Incendies's drama revolves around a daughter's quest to learn more about her mother, a
condemned political prisoner and terrorist.
With a handful of fellow inmates (
mostly political prisoners like himself but with differing nationalities and a criminal among them), he escapes from the camp in winter and the group attempts to make his way on foot to freedom over 4000 miles away, crossing the Siberian vastness via Lake Baikal, the Gobi Desert, and the Himilayas in the process.
In the distant future after a polar shift has destroyed all technology, Sophia has been
helping political prisoners escape their executions by working as the Red Rook.