Political Prisoner Law and Legal Definition
Political prisoner means persons or groups who are detained for their political views. Hence, a political prisoner is someone who is imprisoned or kept under house arrest for his/her participation in political activity. Sometimes the detention of political prisoners is motivated by the prisoner's politics also. Sometimes persons convicted for treason and espionage are also put in the category of political prisoners. Political prisoners can be imprisoned by extrajudicial processes.
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Allowance to a Prisoner
- Apolitical
- Bureau of Political-Military Affairs [Department of State]
- Detailed Prisoner
- Foreign Political Party
- Former Prisoner of War
- General Obligation of a State or Political Subdivision
- Geopolitical Entity
- Imitation Political Item
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
