Political prisoner
A political prisoner is anyone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image either challenge or pose a real or potential threat to the state. In many cases, a veneer of legality is used to disguise the fact that someone is a political prisoner. Trumped-up criminal charges may have been used to imprison the political prisoner, or he or she may have been denied bail unfairly, denied parole when it would reasonably have been given to another prisoner, or special powers may be invoked by the judiciary. Who is or is not regarded as a political prisoner may depend upon one's own subjective political perspective.
External links
- Political Prisoners in the United States - The Jericho Movement
- Political Prisoners in the United States address list from the Prison Activist Resource Center
- Politzeki.ru - political prisoners of the modern Russia
- Anarchist Black Cross Network (ABCN)
- Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF)
- Montreal Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF)
- Prolibertad Support for Puerto Rican political prisoners
- Break the Chains Political Prisoner support organization
- Free Jeff Luers Support site for Jeff 'Free' Luers
- Amnesty International
- Where Is Ms. Cho? - opinion piece about Cho Sung-hye and other North Koreans who attempt to leave North Korea.
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| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Examples of persons thought to be current political prisoners |
| ► | Further reading |
| ► | External links |
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