political prisoner

C3121
concept

A political prisoner is an individual detained or imprisoned primarily because of their political beliefs, activities, or opposition to the governing authority, rather than for a recognized criminal offense.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
political prisoner canonical 68
former political prisoner 8
political prisoners 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: political prisoner
Generated description
A political prisoner is an individual detained or imprisoned primarily because of their political beliefs, activities, or opposition to the governing authority, rather than for a recognized criminal offense.

Instances (77)

Instance Via concept surface
Ales Bialiatski
Bhai Parmanand
Ahmed Kathrada
Jorge Semprún former political prisoner
Mac Maharaj
Luis Corvalán
Martin Niemöller
Fedor Reingold
Konstantin Berman-Yurin
Liu Xiaobo
Mutulu Shakur
Joe McDonnell
Ruth First
Eduard Holtzman
Maung Thura
Oscar López Rivera
Eskinder Nega former political prisoner
Marwan Barghouti
Mahadev Desai
Li Hai
Azimjan Askarov
Su Su Nway
Carl von Ossietzky
József Pehm
Benigno Aquino Jr.
Elias Motsoaledi
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Hubert Gerold Brown
Anar Mammadli
Alexei Navalny
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
József Mindszenty
Carlos Araújo
Álvaro Cunhal
Octávio Pato
Milovan Đilas
Ahmed Kathrada
linked to: Kathrada
Ales Bialiatski
linked to: Ales
Ales Bialiatski
linked to: Bialiatski
Eskinder Nega former political prisoner
Nasrin Sotoudeh
Aron Atabek
Sathyandranath Ragunanan
Ingrid Betancourt former political prisoner
Polina Zhemchuzhina
linked to: Perl Karpovskaya
Polina Zhemchuzhina
linked to: Polina Molotova
Bram Fischer
Abdullah Öcalan
John O’Leary
Ruchell Magee