What do you understand by Political Prisoners in 50 words
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Political prisoner, a person who is imprisoned because that person's actions or beliefs are contrary to those of his or her government. ...
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A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for his or her political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention.
Sahrawi activist Ali Salem Tamek.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Abdullah Öcalan
Emma Goldman
Gandhi
Liu Xiaobo
Nelson Mandela
There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although numerous similar definitions have been proposed by various organizations and scholars, and there is a general consensus among scholars that "individuals have been sanctioned by legal systems and imprisoned by political regimes not for their violation of codified laws but for their thoughts and ideas that have fundamentally challenged existing power relations".[1] The status of a political prisoner is generally awarded to individuals based on declarations of nongovernmental organizations like Amnesty International, on a case-by-case basis. While such status are often widely recognized by the international public opinion, they are often rejected by individual governments accused of holding political prisoners, which tend to deny any bias in their judicial systems.[1][2]
A more narrowly defined term a prisoner of conscience, popularized by Amnesty International, describes someone who was prosecuted because of his or her personal beliefs.