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Political Prisoners Quiz: Discover the Stories Behind Iconic Figures
Test Your Knowledge: Political Prisoners Quiz
- In which other country, besides India, was Mahatma Gandhi imprisoned multiple times?
- Which island was Nelson Mandela imprisoned on for 18 of his 27 years of incarceration?
- Who was the British MI6 officer imprisoned for espionage in 1961, who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs and fled to the Soviet Union?
- What nickname is associated with propaganda broadcaster William Joyce?
- Which Welsh-born philosopher and intellectual was imprisoned by the British government for opposing World War I?
- Which organization was founded in London in 1961 by lawyer Peter Benenson?
- Which IRA member died in 1981 after a hunger strike demanding political prisoner status?
- Which Russian opposition critic was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020 and died in prison in 2024?
- For her opposition to the military regime, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi spent 15 years under house arrest in which country?
- Who was imprisoned and exiled from 1900 to 1902 for organising the South-Russian Workers Union?
- Which Irish statesman and political leader was interned in Dartmoor Prison for participating in the 1916 Easter Rising?
- Who is the founder of WikiLeaks, who faced legal battles and extradition attempts for publishing classified documents?
- The "Cat and Mouse Act" was a British law that allowed the temporary release of what type of hunger strikers?
- What was the nickname of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, imprisoned for numerous terrorist attacks in the 1970s and 1980s?
Answers
- South Africa
- Robben Island
- George Blake
- Lord Haw-Haw
- Bertrand Russell
- Amnesty International
- Bobby Sands
- Alexey Navalny
- Myanmar
- Leon Trotsky
- Eamon De Valera
- Julian Assange
- Suffragettes
- Carlos the Jackal