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Answer for the clue "One held for political reasons ", 8 letters:
internee

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n. a person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists"

Usage examples of internee.

These were Jewish Kapos, who got better food than 32 THE ODESSA FILE the other internees for doing the job they did.

After I became a Rapo all social contact between me and the other internees ceased.

Before raising a squeal because two thousand internees have only eighteen latrine buckets between them, one might as well remember what has happened these last few years in Poland, in Spain, in Czechoslovakia, etc.

That much had been clear as soon as the last load of internees arrived atop the plateau, hearing the black winch box shut down with an electronic buzz and booby-trapped clank.

Now ten of the original band of internees, plus several well-watched prisoners, labored to prepare the captive prize for travel.