Definition of "internal exile" [internal exile]

• Banishment to a remote part of one's own country as a punishment or sanction (noun)

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• "Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms included freeing Ms. Bonner and her husband from internal exile in 1986, issued a statement Sunday calling Ms. Bonner "a noble personality" who until her death "remained a courageous fighter for rights and dignity.""
• "Separating mentor and protégé, Riaz Pasha sentenced Mohammed Abdu to internal exile at the village of his birth."