So as I was reading Waiting for an Angel, I was amazed that Lomba had been in jail for 2 years as a political prisoner without a fair trial. It made me wonder how many other people have been in prison for political reasons and have been denied a trial.
Wikipedia tells us that political prisoners are those who are held in prison or otherwise detained for his or her involvement in political activity.
Wikipedia also says that there is an organization that works for political prisoners as well as philosophical or religious prisoners called Amnesty International.
I found another website that has political prisoners and POWs in the US. It is interesting to look at the names of the prisoners. It also lists those who have died while in custody and those who have been released.
As I kept searching for more information, specifically about political prisoners in Nigeria, I found an article that said that Nigeria freed 47 political prisoners. The date on the article was 1999. The interesting thing is that I found an article from a year before, 1998, which said that Nigeria was supposed to release all of its political prisoners
3 years ago