internal exile

American  

noun

1. a state of comparative isolation imposed upon certain political dissidents within the former Soviet Union, in which the subject was forced to live in a remote and often unfamiliar place and in which freedom of movement and personal contact with family, friends, and associates were severely restricted.

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Example Sentences

He noted that one of Memorial's founders, the late dissident and nuclear physicist Andrey Sakharov, had received the Peace Prize while campaigning against Soviet repression, activities for which he was later banished into internal exile.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2022

It details the overlap of his life and career with that of his father, Ai Qing, a famous poet who was sent into internal exile in 1957, the year Ai Weiwei was born.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2022

Pinochet spent his final years in internal exile, repeatedly under house arrest and deserted by his once-loyal followers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2021

Thich Quang Do, the patriarch of a banned Buddhist church in Vietnam, suffered prison, house arrest and internal exile for decades rather than submit to the Communist authorities.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2020

They were determined to lessen her influence and did it with a brazen and shameless act: they sent her into internal exile.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela