anyone imprisoned for their demographics, beliefs, or the nonviolent expression thereof
Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir was sentenced to death after he wrote an article critical of religion and the caste system in Mauritania. He later moved to France.
A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views. The term also refers to those who have been imprisoned or persecuted for the nonviolent expression of their conscientiously held beliefs.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).