Political prisoner

Political prisoner - someone imprisoned because they have opposed or criticized the government responsible for their imprisonment. Article “Political prisoner” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Political prisoner”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1437 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 107 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 12445 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3182 in March 2022
• Global: #4611 in October 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #15634 in May 2022
• Global: #42273 in November 2017

There are 47 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Political prisoner		77.8309
2	Russian (ru) Политический заключённый		47.7493
3	Ukrainian (uk) Політичний в'язень		45.4873
4	Greek (el) Πολιτικός κρατούμενος		44.6548
5	Catalan (ca) Pres polític		44.438
6	Portuguese (pt) Preso político		41.0134
7	Persian (fa) زندانی سیاسی		39.3919
8	Chinese (zh) 政治犯		35.188
9	Armenian (hy) Քաղաքական բանտարկյալ		33.7411
10	Tamil (ta) அரசியல் கைதி		30.3916

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Political prisoner" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political prisoner		1 334 837
2	Spanish (es) Preso político		681 652
3	Russian (ru) Политический заключённый		460 048
4	Japanese (ja) 政治犯		283 106
5	Chinese (zh) 政治犯		227 409
6	Persian (fa) زندانی سیاسی		185 873
7	German (de) Politischer Gefangener		172 824
8	Portuguese (pt) Preso político		153 829
9	Polish (pl) Więzień polityczny		106 694
10	French (fr) Prisonnier politique		88 387

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Political prisoner" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Political prisoner		4 100
2	Russian (ru) Политический заключённый		1 124
3	Persian (fa) زندانی سیاسی		900
4	Japanese (ja) 政治犯		748
5	Spanish (es) Preso político		707
6	Chinese (zh) 政治犯		646
7	German (de) Politischer Gefangener		534
8	Polish (pl) Więzień polityczny		306
9	French (fr) Prisonnier politique		228
10	Czech (cs) Politický vězeň		136

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Political prisoner" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political prisoner		367
2	Russian (ru) Политический заключённый		140
3	Spanish (es) Preso político		95
4	German (de) Politischer Gefangener		73
5	French (fr) Prisonnier politique		72
6	Italian (it) Prigioniero politico		59
7	Japanese (ja) 政治犯		50
8	Portuguese (pt) Preso político		44
9	Catalan (ca) Pres polític		37
10	Polish (pl) Więzień polityczny		37

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Political prisoner" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Political prisoner		2
2	Galician (gl) Preso político		1
3	Armenian (hy) Քաղաքական բանտարկյալ		1
4	Arabic (ar) سجين سياسي		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Siyasi məhbus		0
6	Belarusian (be) Палітычныя зняволеныя		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Политически затворник		0
8	Catalan (ca) Pres polític		0
9	Czech (cs) Politický vězeň		0
10	Danish (da) Politisk fange		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Political prisoner" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Political prisoner		2 381
2	Persian (fa) زندانی سیاسی		913
3	Spanish (es) Preso político		754
4	Russian (ru) Политический заключённый		695
5	German (de) Politischer Gefangener		678
6	Ukrainian (uk) Політичний в'язень		624
7	Czech (cs) Politický vězeň		528
8	French (fr) Prisonnier politique		523
9	Japanese (ja) 政治犯		504
10	Chinese (zh) 政治犯		470

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سجين سياسي
az	Azerbaijani Siyasi məhbus
be	Belarusian Палітычныя зняволеныя
bg	Bulgarian Политически затворник
ca	Catalan Pres polític
cs	Czech Politický vězeň
da	Danish Politisk fange
de	German Politischer Gefangener
el	Greek Πολιτικός κρατούμενος
en	English Political prisoner
eo	Esperanto Politika malliberulo
es	Spanish Preso político
et	Estonian Poliitvang
eu	Basque Preso politiko
fa	Persian زندانی سیاسی
fr	French Prisonnier politique
gl	Galician Preso político
he	Hebrew אסיר פוליטי
hr	Croatian Politički zatvorenik
hu	Hungarian Politikai fogoly
hy	Armenian Քաղաքական բանտարկյալ
id	Indonesian Tahanan politik
it	Italian Prigioniero politico
ja	Japanese 政治犯
ka	Georgian პოლიტიკური პატიმარი
ko	Korean 정치범
ms	Malay Banduan politik
nl	Dutch Politiek gevangene
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Politisk fange
no	Norwegian Politisk fange
pl	Polish Więzień polityczny
pt	Portuguese Preso político
ro	Romanian Deținut politic
ru	Russian Политический заключённый
sh	Serbo-Croatian Politički zatvorenik
simple	Simple English Political prisoner
sk	Slovak Politický väzeň
sl	Slovenian Politični zapornik
sr	Serbian Политички затвореник
sv	Swedish Politisk fånge
ta	Tamil அரசியல் கைதி
th	Thai นักโทษการเมือง
tr	Turkish Siyasi mahkûm
uk	Ukrainian Політичний в'язень
ur	Urdu سیاسی قیدی
vi	Vietnamese Tù nhân chính trị
zh	Chinese 政治犯

Best Rank

Simple English: #15634 05.2022

Global: #42273 11.2017

Best Rank

Simple English: #3182 03.2022

Global: #4611 10.2017

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