A political prisoner is someone held in
prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a
government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the
state. It may be a
prisoner of conscience, deprived of
freedom of speech.In many cases, political prisoners are imprisoned with no legal veneer directly through
extrajudicial processes. However, it also happens that political prisoners are arrested and tried with a veneer of
legality, where false
criminal charges, manufactured evidence, and unfair trials are used to disguise the fact that an individual is a political prisoner. This is common in situations which may otherwise be decried nationally and internationally as a
human rights violation and suppression of a
political dissident. A political prisoner can also be someone that has been denied
bail unfairly, denied
parole when it would reasonably have been given to a prisoner charged with a comparable crime, or special powers may be invoked by the judiciary. Particularly in this latter situation, whether an individual is regarded as a political prisoner may depend upon subjective political perspective or interpretation of the evidence.
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