List of MPs in Finland imprisoned for political reasons
# List of MPs in Finland imprisoned for political reasons

This is a list of Finnish MPs who have been imprisoned for political reasons.

## Grand Duchy of Finland

During the autonomy period imprisoned or deported (to Siberia) MPs under Lèse-majesté crime :

| MP | MP period | Crime | Party | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Matti Airola | 1908–1918 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime, 1912 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Alexander Halonen | 1910–1911 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime, 1912–1913, In prisoned for political reasons, 1919 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Vihtori Huhta | 1914–1917 1941–1945 | Sentenced to prison by administrative ways and imprisonment and deported to Siberia, 1914, In prison for political reasons, 1930s | Social Democratic Party | |
| Jalmari Kirjarinta | 1908–1910 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime, 1911 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Frans Koskinen | 1907–1911 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime,In prison for political reasons, 1918, died in prison camp | Social Democratic Party | |
| Kullervo Manner | 1910–1918 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime, 1911, fled to Russia 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Otto Piisinen | 1914–1917 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime 8 months (1914) | Social Democratic Party | |
| P. E. Svinhufvud | 1907–1917 1930–1931 | Deported to Siberia, 1914–1917 | Young Finnish Party | |
| During the autonomy period imprisoned or deported (to Siberia) future MPs under Lese Majesty crime |||||
| MP | MP period | Crime | Party | Ref. |
| Theodor Homén | 1905–1906 1908–1914 1919–1922 | Deported to Novgorod 1904–1905 | Young Finnish Party and National Coalition Party | |
| Erland Haapaniemi | 1948–1954 | Deported to Siberia, 1916–1917 | Agrarian League | |
| Väinö Hupli | 1919–1922 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime, 1910 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Akseli Kanerva | 1931–1933 1933–1936 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime, 1914, In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Väinö Vankkoja | 1918–1919 | In prison under Lèse-majesté crime, 1914–1915 | Social Democratic Party | |

## In 1918 imprisoned and executed MPs

### In 1918 executed

1918 executed :

| Executed by White Guard |||||
| - | - | - | - | - |
| MP | MP period | Crime | Party | Ref. |
| Juho Hakkinen | 1917–1918 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Sofia Hjulgrén | 1914–1917 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Samuli Häkkinen | 1907–1908, 1914–1918 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Oskar Kaipio | 1908–1910 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Wilho Laine | 1907–1908, 1910–1914 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Juho Lehmus | 1917–1918 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Jussi Merinen | 1907–1908 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Väinö Nyström | 1909–1910 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Jussi Rainio | 1911–1914 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Juho Rikkonen | 1917–1918 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed in Viipuri 1918 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Executed by Red Guard |||||
| MP | MP period | Crime | Party | Ref. |
| Leander Ikonen | 1917 | executed 1918 | Finnish Party | |
| Antti Mikkola | 1907–1908, 1909–1910, 1917–1918 | murdered 1918 | Young Finnish Party | |
| Matti Pietinen | 1910–1914 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Young Finnish Party | |
| Juho Tulikoura | 1907–1914 | In prisoned for political reasons and executed 1918 | Agrarian League | |

### Other 1918 imprisoned MPs

Other 1918 imprisoned MPs :

| MP | MP period | Crime | Party |
| - | - | - | - |
| Kustaa Ahmala | 1917–1918 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1922 | Social Democratic Party |
| Valentin Annala | 1909–1914, 1917 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1924–1926 | Was sentenced to a penitentiary for political reasons 1918 | Social Democratic Party |
| Werner Aro | 1908–1914 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 | Social Democratic Party |
| Emanuel Aromaa | 1907–1914, 1917–1917, 1924–1926 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1929–1932 | In prison for political reasons 1918– | Social Democratic Party |
| Aapo Harjula | 1917–1918 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1921 | Social Democratic Party |
| Oskari Jalava | 1907–1910, 1911–1918 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1923, uudelleen in prison for political reasons in 1920s | Social Democratic Party |
| Albert Kallio | 1922–1923 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 | Social Democratic Party |
| Anshelm Kannisto | 1907–1911 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1921 | Social Democratic Party |
| Ville Kiviniemi | 1917–1918 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1922 | Social Democratic Party |
| Albin Koponen | 1907–1918, 1922–1944 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 | Social Democratic Party |
| Kalle Myllymäki | 1922–1933 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 | Social Democratic Party |
| Oskari Orasmaa | 1907– 1914–1918 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 | Social Democratic Party |
| Pekka Paavolainen | 1914–1919 | Arrested By Red Guard 1918 | Young Finnish Party later National Coalition Party |
| Armas Paasonen | 1911–1918, 1924–1929, 1930–1933, 1936–1945 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 | Social Democratic Party |
| Albert Raitanen | 1917-1917 | In prison for political reasons 1918 | Social Democratic Party |
| Kaarlo Saari | 1910–1918, 1924–1927 | In prison for political reasons 1918 | Social Democratic Party |
| Hulda Salmi | 1910–1918 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1921 | Social Democratic Party |
| Konsta Talvio | 1929–1930 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1945–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 and 1930–1933 | Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders later People's Democratic League |
| August Valta | 1927–1932 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1941–1944 | Was sentenced in 1918 to four years to punishment room and deprivation of citizens confidence in six years | Social Democratic Party |
| Kalle Valta | 1927–1930 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1932–1935 | Was sentenced in 1918 to five years' punishment room for frenetic dissemination of false information | Social Democratic Party |

## Independent Republic of Finland

### In 1923 imprisoned Socialist Workers' Party MPs

1923 imprisoned Socialist Workers' Party MPs :

| Elin Airamo | In prison for political reasons 1923–1926 |
| - | - |
| Toivo Aronen | 1923–1928 |
| Jaakko Enqvist | 1923 |
| Väinö Hannula | re-prisoned 1923 |
| Frans Hiilos | re-prisoned 1923–1926 |
| Laura Härmä | (later Social Democratic Party) 1922–1923 Was sentenced to prison for political reasons 1923 |
| Antti Kaarne | (also Christian Workers' Union) 1908–1911 1922–1923 imprisoned for political reasons 1923 |
| Pekka Kemppi | 1922–1923 in prison for political reasons in 1920s |
| Aukusti Koivisto | 1922–1923 imprisoned for political reasons 1923 |
| Kalle Lampinen | 1922–1923 Was sentenced to prison for political reasons 1923 |
| Toivo Hjalmar Långström | In prison for political reasons 1923–1926. re-prisoned for political reasons 1930–1934, re-prisoned 1941–1944 |
| Emmi Mäkelin | 1922–1923 in prison for political reasons 1923 |
| Antti Nahkala | Left for Soviet Union |
| Hannes Pulkkinen | 1922–1924 was sentenced to prison for political reasons, for one year seven months in 1924 went to the Soviet Union |
| August Rytkönen | 1922–1923 imprisoned for political reasons 1923 |
| Rosa Sillanpää | 1922–1923 in prison for political reasons 1923–1926 |
| Kalle Toppinen | went to the Soviet Union |
| Lempi Tuomi | 1922–1923 in prison for political reasons 1923–1924 |
| Vihtori Vainio | 1923 Was sentenced to prison for political reasons 1923 |
| Ville Vainio | (also Social Democratic Party) 1909–1911 and 1919–1923 in prison for political reasons 1918, 1921–1922 and 1923–1925 |
| Yrjö Valkama | 1922–1923 imprisoned for political reasons 1923 |
| Juho Vesterlund | 1922–1923 sentenced to prison for political reasons, 1923 |
| Matti Väisänen | 1922 was sentenced to prison for political reasons 1923 |

### Other

Other MPs :

| MP | Party | MP period | Crime |
| - | - | - | - |
| Ida Aalle-Teljo | Socialist Workers' Party | 1907–1917 | In Russia 1918–1919, In prison for political reasons 1919–1922 |
| Aimo Aaltonen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1962 | In Prison and Security detained for political reasons1933-1944 |
| Mikko Ampuja | Socialist Parliamentary Group later People's Democratic League | 1919–1941, 1944–1945, | In prison camp 1918, In prison for political reasons 1941–1944 |
| Juho Aromaa | Social Democratic Party | 1922–1924 | In prison for political reasons 1918 |
| Vihtori Fallila | Social Democratic Party | 1933-1933 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1921 |
| Jussi Fahler | Socialist Workers' Party | 1927–1929 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 |
| Alexander Halonen | Social Democratic Party | 1910–1911 | In prison for Lèse-majesté 1912–1913, imprisoned for political reasons 191 |
| Kaarlo Harvala | Social Democratic Party | 1922–1939 | In prison for political reasons 1918 |
| Hilda Herrala | Social Democratic Party | 1908–1914, 1917–1918, 1933–1936 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 |
| Esa Hietanen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1962, | In prison for political reasons 1926–1927 |
| Matti Huhta | People's Democratic League | 1945–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1937–1944 |
| Vihtori Huhta | Social Democratic Party | 1914–1917, 1941–1945 | Sentenced to prison by administrative ways and imprisonment and deported to Siberia 1914, In prison for political reasons in 1930s |
| Juho Hukari | People's Democratic League | 1945–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1931–1933, During the war the security in custody four years |
| Edvard Huttunen | Social Democratic Party | 1924–1933, 1937–1939 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 |
| Mikko Järvinen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1953 | In prison for political reasons in 1930s |
| Akseli Kanerva | Social Democratic Party | 1931–1933, 1933–1936 | In prison for Lèse-majesté 1914, In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 |
| Lauri Kantola | People's Democratic League | 1962–1975 | In prison for political reasons 1929–1933, 1941–1944 |
| Elsa Karppinen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1948 | In prison for political reasons in three times totally about 12 years |
| Aukusti Koivisto | Socialist Workers' Party | 1922–1923 | imprisoned for political reasons 1923 |
| Juho Kosonen | Social Democratic Party | 1930–1939, 1944–1945 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 |
| Toivo Kujala | People's Democratic League | 1945–1959 | Was sentenced to prison for political reasons 1918, 1931,During the wars in security detention, was released in 1944 |
| Jalmari Kulmala | People's Democratic League | 1945–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1918, 1931–1933 and 1939–1944 |
| Kalle Kulmala | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924–1930 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 |
| Hertta Kuusinen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1972 | Finland in prison for political reasons 1934–1939, security detention prison1941-1944 |
| Antti Lastu | Social Democratic Party | 1933–1939, 1945, | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 |
| Toivo Latva | Socialist Workers' Party | 1927–1928 | In prison for political reasons 1928–1931 |
| Jalmari Leino | Social Democratic Party | 1927–1930 | In prison for political reasons 1918 |
| Yrjö Leino | People's Democratic League | 1945–1951 | In prison for political reasons 1935–1938, arrested 1940–1941 |
| Paavo Leskinen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1952 | In prison for political Reasons at different times a total of 11 years |
| Jaakko Liedes | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924–1930 | In prison for political reasons 1918, 1930–1933 |
| Hemmi Lindqvist | People's Democratic League | 1951–1958, 1962–1966 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 |
| Hjalmar Lindqvist | Social Democratic Party | 1930–1933, 1937–1945 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 |
| Toivo Lång | People's Democratic League | 1945–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1929–1931, 1934–1936, 1939–1940, 1940–1944 |
| Väinö Meltti | Socialist Parliamentary Group | 1941-1941, 1944–1945, | In prison for political reasons 1941–1944 |
| Unto Miettinen | People's Democratic League | 1954–1958, | In prison for political reasons 1939–1944 |
| Yrjö Murto | People's Democratic League | 1948–1963 | In prison for political reasons 1935–1944 |
| Sulo Muuri | People's Democratic League | 1945–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1939–1940, 1941–1944 |
| Toivo Niiranen | People's Democratic League | 1951–1966 | In prison for political reasons 1944 |
| Juho Nykänen | People's Democratic League | 1951–1954 | In prison for political reasons 1932–1935 |
| Nestori Nurminen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1962, 1966–1970, | In prison for political reasons 1932–1937, again 1940–1944 |
| Niilo Pajunen | Social Democratic Party | 1933–1936 | In prison for political reasons 1918 |
| Eemeli Paronen | Social Democratic Party | 1914–1917, 1917–1919 | In prison for political reasons in 1920s |
| Eino Pekkala | Socialist Workers' Party later People's Democratic League | 1927–1930, 1945–1948, | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920, arrested again 1930 |
| Isak Penttala | Social Democratic Party | 1927–1951 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 |
| Ville Pessi | People's Democratic League | 1945–1966 | Prison and security in custody for political reasons 1935–1944 |
| Viljo Rantala | Social Democratic Party | 1922–1962 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1921 |
| Pertti Rapio | People's Democratic League | 1951–1966 | Security detained for political reasons 1941–1944 |
| Kalle Renfors | People's Democratic League | 1948–1954 | In prison for political reasons in 1930s |
| Gösta Rosenberg | People's Democratic League | 1945–1966 | In prison for political reasons 1939–1940 |
| Mauritz Rosenberg | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924–1930 | In prison for political reasons 1922–1924 |
| Mauri Ryömä | Social Democratic Party, later People's Democratic League | 1936–1937, 1945–1958 | In prison for political reasons 1940–1944 |
| Janne Räsänen | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924–1927 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1919 |
| Yrjö Räisänen | Socialist Parliamentary Group later People's Democratic League | 1930–1941, 1944–1948 | Security detained for political reasons 1941–1944 |
| Jalmari Rötkö | Socialist Workers' Party | 1929–1930 | In prison for political reasons 1930 |
| Kaisu-Mirjami Rydberg | Social Democratic Party, later Socialist Parliamentary Groupja People's Democratic League | 1939–1941 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1944–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1941–1944 |
| Filemon Savenius | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924–1929 | In prison for political reasons 1918, went to the Soviet Union 1930 |
| Rosa Sillanpää | Socialist Workers' Party | 1922–1923 | In prison for political reasons 1923–1926 |
| Elli Stenberg | People's Democratic League | 1945–1966 | In prison for political reasons 1930–1936, re-prisoned 1939–1944 |
| Pekka Strengell | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924–1927, 1928–1930 | In prison for political reasons 1930–1932 |
| Julius Sundblom | Swedish People's Party | 1907–1914 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1917–1919 | Sentenced to prison for the preparation of treason in 1920 but President Ståhlberg pardoned him immediately |
| Leo Suonpää | People's Democratic League | 1954–1970, | In prison for political reasons 1934–1936 |
| Paavo Susitaival | Patriotic People's Movement | 1939–1940 | In prison for political reasons four times in the 1930s |
| Emil Tabell | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924–1930 | Was sentenced to prison for political reasons 1918, deported to the Soviet Union 1930 |
| Eino Tainio | People's Democratic League | 1945–1970 | In prison for political reasons 1939–1940, 1940–1944 |
| Hannes Tauriainen | People's Democratic League | 1948–1966 | In prison for treason 1939–1946 |
| Bruno Tenhunen | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924-1924 | In prison for political reasons 1924–1926 |
| Jukka Tuomikoski | Social Democratic Party | 1914–1917, 1917–1918 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1921 |
| Arvo Tuominen | Social Democratic Party | 1958–1962 | In prison for political reasons 1922–1926 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1928–1933, in exile in the Soviet Union 1933–1937 and in Sweden 1937–1956 |
| Tyyne Tuominen | People's Democratic League | 1945–1947 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1958–1961 | In prison for political reasons 1938–1940 sentenced to prison for political reasons,1941–1944 |
| Matti Turkia | Social Democratic Party | 1907–1909, 1914–1917, 1930–1945 | In prison for political reasons 1927–1928 |
| Ida Vihuri | Social Democratic Party | 1922–1929 | In prison for political reasons 1918–1920 |
| Antti Virtanen | People's Democratic League | 1946–1948 | In prison for political reasons 1941–1944 |
| Konsta Vuokila | Socialist Workers' Party | 1924-1924 | In prison for political reasons 1924–1927 |
| Heikki Väisänen | Social Democratic Party later Socialist Workers' Party | 1917-1917, 1919, 1929–1930 | imprisoned for political reasons 1930 |
| K. H. Wiik | Social Democratic Party later Socialist Parliamentary Group, People's Democratic League | 1911–1918, 1922–1929, 1933–1941, 1944–1946 | In prison for political reasons 1941–1944 |
| Sulo Wuolijoki | Social Democratic Party | 1907–1914 | In prison for political reasons in 1920s |
