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Meanings of prisoner of conscience in English

Russian
узник совести
Portuguese
prisioneiro de consciência
Catalan
presoner de consciència
Spanish
prisionera de conciencia

Anyone imprisoned for their demographics, beliefs, or the nonviolent expression thereof.

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Examples for "poc"
Examples for "poc"
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Results: Nineteen different POC tests were identified as currently being in use.
Pubmed
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Women at the Juba POC line to receive their monthly food rations.
Radio NZ
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Conclusion: Access to POC testing for G6PD deficiency in Ghana was poor.
Pubmed
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Conclusion: POC tests are commonly used and greatly appreciated in this study setting.
Pubmed
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The maximum distance a POC can open a portal is twenty-five feet, right?
Hollow World
Usage of prisoner of conscience in English
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At the moment, he is the only prisoner of conscience in Cuba.
Reuters
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Rights watchdog Amnesty International named him a " prisoner of conscience" in 1996.
Reuters
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Morocco's main human rights group, AMDH, considers him to have been a prisoner of conscience.
Reuters
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Over three months later he is still in custody, a prisoner of conscience, say his friends.
The Irish Times
5
Amnesty International made her a prisoner of conscience, while Vanity Fair dubbed her Burma's Saint Joan.
The Guardian
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Nazanin is a prisoner of conscience who should never have been jailed in the first place.
The Guardian
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The opposition roundly rejects suggestions that she is effectively a prisoner of conscience in the presidential palace.
Reuters
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Amnesty International considers him a " prisoner of conscience".
The Guardian
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She is now the world's most famous prisoner of conscience, but her fight has come at great personal cost.
Reuters
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Pompeo said her father - a Uighur scholar - is serving a life sentence as a prisoner of conscience.
Reuters
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The 29-year-old, described by Amnesty as a prisoner of conscience, is currently being kept in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
The Guardian
12
Beyond that, she is a prisoner of conscience who has been unjustly jailed and must be released immediately and unconditionally.
The Guardian
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Amnesty International has declared her a prisoner of conscience and along with Human Rights Watch has raised concern about her case.
The Irish Times
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The United Nations had condemned his detention as "arbitrary", while Amnesty International had designated him a prisoner of conscience.
Radio NZ
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Amnesty International says one of these people, Ye Guozhu, has been mistreated in prison, and considers him a prisoner of conscience.
Reuters
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Amnesty International said he had been living under a "draconian" military order and was now considered a " prisoner of conscience".
The Guardian