prisoner of conscience
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anyone imprisoned for their demographics, beliefs, or the nonviolent expression thereof
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- occupation
- Subclass of
- political prisoner
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- topic's main category
- Category:Prisoners of conscience
- male form of label
- prisioneiro de conciencia
- female form of label
- prisioneira de conciencia
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- inception
- 1961-05-28
- different from
- political prisoner
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “prisoner of conscience” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.