Explore: Political Prisoners In Art

States has held political prisoners, people whose detention is based substantially on political motives. Prominent US political prisoners have included

extracting collecting military and political intelligence, and political or religious indoctrination. For much of history, prisoners of war would often be slaughtered

Prison art is art that is created by persons who are imprisoned. Prison art is unique in several ways. Due to the low social status of prisoners, art made

The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

fellow prisoners, before being transferred to the West. The practice ended in October 1989 when remaining political prisoners began to be released in the

inverted red triangle Strafbataillon military prisoner badge Uniform of a Belgian political prisoner uniform in Dachau displayed at the National Museum of

the total number of prisoners in prison camps was more than 2.4 million of which more than 465,000 were political prisoners. In 1948, the system of "special

and political activist. She is a founding member of the feminist group Pussy Riot, and has a history of political activism with the street art group

Geneva Convention with prisoners of war of other nationalities, military planners decided to breach it with the Soviet prisoners. By the end of 1941, over

creation of a city-state in the area, the popes from Pius IX to Pius XI refused the proposal and described themselves as prisoners of the new Italian state