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2011 Iraqi protests

Dozens protested in Tahrir Square, calling for Oil Minister Karim Luaibi to be fired, a planned port named for ex-President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak to be scrapped, and political prisoners to be released.

Bo Yang

From 1969 Bo Yang was incarcerated as a political prisoner (for "being a Communist agent and attacking national leaders") on Green Island for nine years.

Herta Oberheuser

She worked there under the supervision of Dr. Karl Gebhardt, participating in gruesome medical experiments (sulfanilamide as well as bone, muscle, and nerve regeneration and bone transplantation) conducted on 86 women, 74 of whom were Polish political prisoners in the camp.

Sahrawi nationality law

In March 2013, Hassan Serghouchni, an old Moroccan political prisoner in the 1980s residing in Oujda, sent a letter to the Sahrawi Republic embassy in Algiers asking for the concession of the Sahrawi nationality, being the first Moroccan to demand it.

Viper Island

Viper Island is near Port Blair in Andaman district in the Andaman Islands, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a union territory of India and was the site of the jail where the British used to imprison convicts and political prisoners.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov

Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov (1915, Krasnodar oblast, Russia - March 17, 1999 Kensington, Maryland) was at various times an academic, philatelist, prisoner, forced laborer, political prisoner, adventurer, factory worker and soldier.


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Alejandro Goic

During the first months of 2008, he served as a mediator between the government and Patricia Troncoso, a pro-Mapuche political prisoner who held a hunger strike for 112 days.

Brian Concannon

Concannon successfully represented former Prime Minister and political prisoner Yvon Neptune in the first Haiti case ever decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite

Inside this all-women’s penitentiary, Barış (Ozan Bilen) searches for companionship and guidance—and finds them both in the form of Inci Nur Sürer, a political prisoner with whom he forms a very special bond.

Duško Novaković

Exceptional voice, Ksenija Cicvarić, was and still is known as a top performer Montenegrin, Serbian and Muslim melodies, harassed and persecuted during the period when the poet's father, after the Cominform Resolution in prison as a political prisoner in a Stalinist prison camp in Jilava, Romania.

Institute of Modern Russia

The president of IMR is Pavel Khodorkovsky, the son of Russian political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky; the Institute's advisors include Vladimir V. Kara-Murza, Richard Sakwa and Andrei Piontkovsky.

Jaime Chávarri

Chavarri subsequent film: Dedicatoria (A dedication) (1980), another collaboration with Elias Querejeta, centers on Juan Uribe, played by José Luis Gómez, a journalist whose interrogation of his comrade, Luis Falcon, a political prisoner, leads him to discover the incestuous relation between Falcon and his daughter, the same woman with whom Juan is having sexual relations.

Josef Buršík

Josef Buršík (born September 11, 1911 in Postřekov, died June 30, 2002 in Northampton) was a Czech resistance fighter, general, dissident, and political prisoner.

Joseph E. Brown

After the war, Brown was briefly held as a political prisoner in Washington, D.C. He was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1865 to 1870, when he resigned to become president of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.

Plainfield, Illinois

Alexander Ratiu, Romanian political prisoner; priest at St. Mary Immaculate Church (1975–1982)

Safika Holdings

Macozoma served five years as a political prisoner on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela and later became a prominent figure in the African National Congress (ANC) serving as a member of parliament and as a member of the ANC's executive committee.

Smoleń

Kazimierz Smoleń (1920−2012), Polish political prisoner of KZ Auschwitz and latterly long term director of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Winterbotham

William Winterbotham (1763–1829), British Baptist minister and a political prisoner

World Burns to Death

The band's lyric sheets contain references to, or quotes from, writer William Shakespeare, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, individualist anarchist Max Stirner, leftist writers Susan Sontag and Herbert Marcuse, political prisoner Stephen Biko, and others.

Zangpo

Takna Jigme Zangpo (born 1926), spent thirty-seven years in a Chinese prison in Lhasa, Tibet as a political prisoner