internal exile

Frequency: 6.98.5 per million words

Being forced to live in a remote part of one's own country.

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  • Many spent decades in prison or in internal exile.
  • The dissidents were forced into internal exile in remote regions.
  • Political opponents often faced internal exile rather than imprisonment.
  • He lived in internal exile for criticizing the government.
  • The regime used internal exile to silence critics without international scrutiny.
  • She was sentenced to five years of internal exile in Siberia.
  • Activists were subjected to internal exile in isolated villages.
  • The punishment of internal exile separated families for years.
  • Writers and intellectuals often endured internal exile under authoritarian rule.
  • His internal exile ended only after the change of government.