Prisoners of Conscience

“Prison” exists to confine the human body to a limited space; limiting the space is to torture the body along with the physical violence, and this has ramifications for an individual’s mental and physical health—the inevitable result of incarceration and torture. Naturally then, turning the opponent and dissenter into a political prisoner is an old-fashioned political technique to grab power and gain political dominance over a certain ideology or a section of society.