Political Prisoner

A political prisoner as stated in the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_prisoner declares, “A political prisoner may be someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. Typically, the imprisonment of people on political grounds is done under extrajudicial processes, where the veneer of legality and terminology are used to disguise the fact that an individual is a political prisoner. False or exaggerated criminal charges may have been used to imprison the political prisoner, or he or she may have been denied bail unfairly, denied parole when it would reasonably have been given to another
This man is not alone though, as stated by John Kamm, director of the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, “There are at least 70 possibly as many as 300, prisoners still serving sentences for convictions stemming from the 1989 protests.” Lu Decheng made a promise to his two other friends that were also put into prison along with him on the charges of, “counterrevolutionary destruction and counterrevolutionary incitement.” After being released in 2004 for being in prison for nine years he fled to Thailand. Police there arrested him and confined him for “illegal entry.” He was just as unlucky as his counterparts, even though one of his friends by the name of Yu Zhijian, was sentenced to life in prison was released before him in the year 2001. The third person Yu Dongyue was in prison for 17 years and was just now released in February. Now Lu keeps his promise to his friends and wants the whole world to know what goes on in the communist prisons. Lu is now going to start his life over again in Canada where is has been granted refugee status at the ripe age of