Editing Political prisoner (section)

====Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe====
The [[Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]] has the following definition:
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A person deprived of their personal liberty is to be regarded as a 'political prisoner':
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|if the detention has been imposed in violation of one of the fundamental guarantees set out in the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] and its Protocols, in particular [[freedom of thought]], conscience and [[freedom of religion|religion]], [[freedom of expression]] and [[freedom of information|information]], [[freedom of assembly]] and [[Freedom of association|association]];
|if the detention has been imposed for purely political reasons without connection to any offence;
|if, for political motives, the length of the detention or its conditions are clearly out of proportion to the offence the person has been found guilty of or is suspected of;
|if, for political motives, he or she is detained in a discriminatory manner as compared to other persons; or,
|if the detention is the result of proceedings which were clearly unfair and this appears to be connected with political motives of the authorities.<ref>{{cite web|title = The definition of political prisoner|url = http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-DocDetails-EN.asp?fileid=19150&lang=EN|access-date = 2015-11-23|date = 3 October 2012|publisher = Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe}}</ref>
}}
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