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prisoners

noun as in person jailed for crime; person kept against his or her will

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Outside of Iran, Rigi's “confession” seemed like another in the long tradition of statements extracted from prisoners there.

Sabrine reports that the latest demands by ISIS militants are three prisoners for every captive soldier.

Krivov held numerous protests to support the imprisoned activists who became known as the “May 6th prisoners.”

In 2008, he was arrested for reporting about the abuse of prisoners in Syrian jails.

It is for his work trying to help other political prisoners that he has been outrageously imprisoned himself.

Then follows an account of the life of the Jesuit prisoners, in Virginia and England.

He has secured the release of certain Spanish prisoners, and is building two ships.

The result was that some 40 rebels were killed, others taken prisoners, and the remainder escaped into the planted fields.

The trophies of the victory were six men of war and all of their East India ships, and between four and five thousand prisoners.

British stated their loss at 103, killed, wounded and missing, and that they had taken 495 American prisoners.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prisoners, such as: hostage, convict, captive, tough, culprit, and lag.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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