List of heads of government who were later imprisoned

This is a list of heads of government who were later imprisoned. There have been several individuals throughout history who served as head of state or head of government (such as president, prime minister or monarch) of their nation states and later became prisoners. Any serving or former head who was placed under house arrest or became a prisoner of war is also included. Leaders who were kidnapped by insurgents or those who received an Interpol notice that was not consummated are not included.

Africa edit

Portrait Name Countries Official position Later imprisonment Reason
  Muhammad VIII al-Amin   Tunisia Bey of Tunis (1943-1956) & King of Tunisia (1956-1957) 1957 Overthrown[1]
  Patrice Lumumba   Democratic Republic of the Congo Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (1960) 1961 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[2]
  Ahmed Ben Bella   Algeria President of Algeria (1963-1965) 1965 Overthrown[3]
Ntare V of Burundi   Burundi King of Burundi (1966) 1966 Overthrown
  Alphonse Massamba-Débat   Republic of the Congo President of the Republic of the Congo (1963-1968) 1968 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[2]
  Modibo Keïta   Mali President of Mali (1960-1968) 1968 Overthrown[4][5]
  Idris of Libya   Libya King of Libya (1951-1969) 1969 Overthrown
  Hamani Diori   Niger President of Niger (1960-1974) 1974 Overthrown[6]
  Haile Selassie   Ethiopia Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) 1974 Overthrown[7]
  Moktar Ould Daddah   Mauritania President of Mauritania (1960-1978) 1978 Overthrown[8]
Ali Soilih   Comoros Head of State of the Comoros (1976-1978) 1978 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[9]
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong   Ghana Head of state of Ghana (1972-1978) 1979 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad) [10]
Akwasi Afrifa   Ghana Head of state of Ghana (1969-1970) 1979 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad) [10]
Fred Akuffo   Ghana Head of state of Ghana (1978-1979) 1979 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad) [10]
  Francisco Macías Nguema   Equatorial Guinea President of Equatorial Guinea (1968-1979) 1979 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[11]
  Luís Cabral   Guinea-Bissau President of Guinea-Bissau (1973-1980) 1980 Overthrown
  Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla   Mauritania President of Mauritania (1980-1984) 1984 Colluding with a foreign power[12]
  Jean-Bédel Bokassa   Central African Republic President of the Central African Republic (1966-1976) & Emperor of Central Africa (1976-1979) 1987 Murder[13]
  Mengistu Haile Mariam   Ethiopia President of Ethiopia (1987-1991) 1991 Overthrown
  Moussa Traoré   Mali President of Mali (1968-1991) 1993 Overthrown[14]
  Canaan Banana   Zimbabwe President of Zimbabwe (1980-1987) 1999 Homosexuality[15]
  João Bernardo Vieira   Guinea-Bissau President of Guinea-Bissau (1980-1984, 1984-1999, 2005–2009), Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau & Vice President of Guinea-Bissau (1977-1980) 1999 Overthrown
  Kumba Ialá   Guinea-Bissau President of Guinea-Bissau (2000-2003) 2003 Overthrown
  Pasteur Bizimungu   Rwanda President of Rwanda (1994-2000) 2004 Corruption[16]
  Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya   Mauritania Prime Minister of Mauritania (1981-1984, 1984-1992) & President of Mauritania (1984-2005) 2005 Overthrown
Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó   Equatorial Guinea Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (2004-2006) 2007 Corruption[17]
  Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi   Mauritania President of Mauritania (2007-2008) 2008 Overthrown
Mohamed Bacar   Anjouan President of Anjouan (2001-2008) 2008 Illegally entering a country[18]
  Marc Ravalomanana   Madagascar President of Madagascar (2005-2009) 2010 Murder[19]
  Mamadou Tandja   Niger President of Niger (1999-2010) 2010 Overthrown[20]
Eugene Koffi Adoboli   Togo Prime Minister of Togo (1999-2000) 2011 Corruption[21]
Abuzed Omar Dorda   Libya Prime Minister of Libya (1990-1994) 2011 Crimes against humanity[22]
  Baghdadi Mahmudi   Libya Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya (2006-2011) 2011 Illegally entering a country[23]
  Muammar Gaddafi   Libya Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution (1979-2011), Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council (1969-1977), Secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya (1977-1979) & Prime Minister of Libya (1970-1972) 2011 Overthrown
  Hosni Mubarak   Egypt President of Egypt (1981-2011), Prime Minister of Egypt (1981-1982) & Vice-President of Egypt (1975-1981) 2011 Overthrown
  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali   Tunisia President of Tunisia (1987-2011) 2011 Overthrown[24]
  Charles Taylor   Liberia President of Liberia (1997-2003) 2012 Crimes against humanity[25]
  Raimundo Pereira   Guinea-Bissau President of Guinea-Bissau (2009, 2012) 2012 Overthrown
  François Bozizé   Central African Republic President of the Central African Republic (2003-2013) 2013 Overthrown[26]
  Ephraïm Inoni   Cameroon Prime Minister of Cameroon (2004-2009) 2013 Corruption[27]
  Mohamed Morsi   Egypt President of Egypt (2012-2013) 2013 Overthrown[28][29]
Frédéric Bamvuginyumvira   Burundi Vice-President of Burundi (1998-2001) 2015 Bribery[30]
  Jean-Pierre Bemba   Democratic Republic of the Congo Vice-Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003-2006) 2016 Crimes against humanity[31]
  Hissène Habré   Chad President of Chad (1982-1990) 2016 Crimes against humanity[32]
  Robert Mugabe   Zimbabwe Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-1987) & President of Zimbabwe (1987-2017) 2017 Overthrown[33]
  Hama Amadou   Niger Prime Minister of Niger (1995-1996 & 2000–2007) 2017 Child smuggling[34]
  Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi   Comoros President of the Comoros (2006-2011) 2018 Corruption[35]
  Youcef Yousfi   Algeria Prime Minister of Algeria (2014) 2019 Corruption[36]
  Abdelmalek Sellal   Algeria Prime Minister of Algeria (2012-2017) 2019 Corruption[37]
  Ahmed Ouyahia   Algeria Prime Minister of Algeria (1995-1998, 2003–2006, 2008–2012 & 2017–2019) 2019 Corruption[37]
  Mohamed Tahir Ayala   Sudan Prime Minister of Sudan (2019) 2019 Overthrown[38]
  Omar al-Bashir   Sudan President of Sudan (1989-2019) 2019 Overthrown[39][40][41]
  Guillaume Soro   Ivory Coast Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast (2007-2012) 2020 Corruption[42]
  Tom Thabane   Lesotho Prime Minister of Lesotho (2012-2015 & 2017–2020) 2020 Murder[43]
  Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta   Mali President of Mali (2013-2020) 2020 Overthrown[44]
  Bah Ndaw   Mali President of Mali (2020-2021) 2021 Overthrown[45]
  Moctar Ouane   Mali Prime Minister of Mali (2020-2021) 2021 Overthrown[45]
  Alpha Condé   Guinea President of Guinea (2010-2021) 2021 Overthrown[46]
  Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz   Mauritania President of Mauritania (2009-2019) 2021 Corruption[47]
  Yahya Ould Hademine   Mauritania Prime Minister of Mauritania (2014-2018) 2021 Corruption[48]
  Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir   Mauritania Prime Minister of Mauritania (2018-2019) 2021 Corruption[48]
  Jacob Zuma   South Africa President of South Africa (2009-2018) 2021 Corruption[49]
  Roch Marc Christian Kaboré   Burkina Faso President of Burkina Faso (2015-2022) 2022 Overthrown[50]
 
Moussa Dadis Camara   Guinea President of Guinea (2008-2010) 2022 Imprisoned before trial[51]
  Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba   Burkina Faso President of Burkina Faso (2022) 2022 Overthrown[52]
  Mohamed Bazoum   Niger President of Niger (2021-2023) 2023 Overthrown[53]
  Ali Bongo Ondimba   Gabon President of Gabon (2009-2023) 2023 Overthrown[54]

Asia edit

Portrait Name Countries Official position Later
imprisonment
Reason
Li Si   China Imperial Chancellor (208 BC) 208 BC Treason (Executed by Waist chop)
  Zhao Gao   China Imperial Chancellor (208-207 BC) 207 BC Overthrown (Stabbed to death)
  Ziying of Qin   China Ruler of Qin (207 BC) 206 BC Overthrown (Executed by beheading)
  Huai of Jin   China Emperor of China (Western Jin) (307-311) 313 Overthrown (Executed by beheading)
  Min of Jin   China Emperor of China (Western Jin) (313-316) 318 Overthrown (Executed by beheading)
  Tianzuo of Liao   China Emperor of the Liao Dynasty (1101–1125) 1156 Overthrown (Executed by being shot to death with arrows)
  Qinzong of Song   China Emperor of the Song Dynasty (1126–1127) 1127 Captured by enemy forces during the Jingkang incident
  Wen Tianxiang   China Grand Chancellor of the Song Dynasty (1275–1278) 1283 Treason (Executed by beheading)
  Mehmed VI   Turkey Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918-1922) 1922 Overthrown
  Puyi   China Emperor of Manchukuo (1934-1945) and Emperor of China (1908-1912) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Chen Gongbo   Collaborationist China President of the Republic of China (1944-1945) 1946 Treason (Executed by firing squad)
  Liang Hongzhi   Collaborationist China President of the Reformed Government of the Republic of China (1938-1940) 1946 Treason (Executed by firing squad)
  Kōki Hirota   Japan Prime Minister of Japan (1936-1937) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Hiranuma Kiichirō   Japan Prime Minister of Japan (1939) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Kuniaki Koiso   Japan Prime Minister of Japan (1944-1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Masaharu Homma   Japan Military Governor of Japan to the Philippines (1942) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Shigenori Kuroda   Japan Military Governor of Japan to the Philippines (1943-1944) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Tomoyuki Yamashita   Japan Military Governor of Japan to the Philippines (1944-1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Jirō Minami   Japan Governor-General of Korea (1936-1942) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Takashi Sakai   Japan Governor of Hong Kong (1941-1942) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Rensuke Isogai   Japan Governor of Hong Kong (1942-1944) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Hisakazu Tanaka   Japan Governor of Hong Kong (1945) 1947 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Yoshijirō Umezu   Japan Governor-General of Kwantung (1939-1944) 1948 Crimes against humanity
  Heitarō Kimura   Japan Governor of Hong Kong (1944-1945) 1948 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Hideki Tojo   Japan Prime Minister of Japan (1941-1944) 1948 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Faisal II of Iraq   Iraq King of Iraq (1939-1958) 1958 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)
  Nuri al-Said   Iraq Prime Minister of Iraq (1930-1958) 1958 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)
  Adnan Menderes   Turkey Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-1960) 1960 Overthrown (Executed by hanging)[55]
  Abd al-Karim Qasim   Iraq Prime Minister of Iraq (1958-1963) 1963 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)
  Sukarno   Indonesia President of Indonesia (1945-1967) 1967 Overthrown[56]
  Liu Shaoqi   China Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1958-1968) 1968 Treason[57]
  Said Bin Taimur   Oman Sultan of Oman (1932-1970) 1970 Overthrown
Tajuddin Ahmad   Bangladesh Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1971-1972) 1975 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[58]
  Muhammad Mansur Ali   Bangladesh Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1975) 1975 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[58]
  Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad   Bangladesh President of Bangladesh (1975) 1975 Overthrown[58]
  Amir-Abbas Hoveyda   Iran Prime Minister of Iran (1965-1977) 1979 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[59]
  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi   Iran Shah of Iran (1941-1979) 1979 Overthrown
  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto   Pakistan President of Pakistan (1971-1973)
Prime Minister of Pakistan (1973-1977)
1979 Murder (Hanging)[60][61][62]
  Kakuei Tanaka   Japan Prime Minister of Japan (1972-1974) 1983 Bribery[63]
  Zhao Ziyang   China General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1987-1989)
Premier of the People's Republic of China (1980-1987)
1989 Politically purged
  Hussain Muhammad Ershad   Bangladesh President of Bangladesh (1983-1990) 1990 Corruption[64]
Mohammad Najibullah   Afghanistan President of Afghanistan (1987-1992) 1992 Overthrown (Tortured to death)[65]
  Chun Doo-hwan   South Korea President of South Korea (1980-1988) 1996 Treason[66]
  Roh Tae-woo   South Korea President of South Korea (1988-1993) 1996 Treason[67]
  Akezhan Kazhegeldin   Kazakhstan Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (1994-1997) 1998 Tax evasion[68]
  Necmettin Erbakan   Turkey Prime Minister of Turkey (1996-1997) 1998 Corruption[69]
  Benazir Bhutto   Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-1990 & 1993–1996) 1999 Corruption[70]
  P. V. Narasimha Rao   India Prime Minister of India (1991-1996) 2000 Corruption[71]
  Suharto   Indonesia President of Indonesia (1968-1998) 2000 Corruption[72]
  Ne Win   Burma Prime Minister of Burma (1958-1960 & 1962-1974)
President of Burma (1974-1981)
2002 Treason[73]
  Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi   Iraq Prime Minister of Iraq (1991-1993) 2003 Overthrown[74]
  Sa'dun Hammadi   Iraq Prime Minister of Iraq (1991) 2003 Overthrown[75]
  Saddam Hussein   Iraq President of Iraq (1979-2003) 2003 Overthrown (Executed by hanging)[76]
  Khin Nyunt   Burma Prime Minister of Myanmar (2003-2004) 2005 Corruption[77]
  Joseph Estrada   Philippines President of the Philippines (1998-2001) 2007 Corruption[78]
  Norodom Ranariddh   Cambodia Prime Minister of Cambodia (1993-1997) 2007 Corruption[79]
  Chen Shui-bian   Taiwan President of the Republic of China (2000-2008) 2009 Bribery[80]
  Abdul Kabir   Afghanistan Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan (2001) 2010 Terrorism[81]
  Yousaf Raza Gillani   Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan (2008-2012) 2012 Contempt of court[82]
  Nambaryn Enkhbayar   Mongolia Prime Minister of Mongolia (2000-2004)
President of Mongolia (2005-2009)
2012 Corruption[83]
  Abdumalik Abdullajanov   Tajikistan Prime Minister of Tajikistan (1992-1993) 2013 Attempted assassination[84]
  Ehud Olmert   Israel Prime Minister of Israel (2006-2009) 2014 Bribery[85]
  Raja Pervaiz Ashraf   Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan (2012-2013) 2014 Corruption[86]
  Khieu Samphan   Democratic Kampuchea Chairman of the State Presidium of Democratic Kampuchea (1976-1979) 2014 Crimes against humanity[87]
  Nuon Chea   Democratic Kampuchea Prime Minister of Kampuchea (1976) 2014 Crimes against humanity[88]
  Kenan Evren   Turkey President of Turkey (1980-1989) 2014 Treason[89]
  Serik Akhmetov   Kazakhstan Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (2012-2014) 2015 Corruption[90]
  Han Myeong-sook   South Korea Prime Minister of South Korea (2006-2007) 2015 Bribery[91]
  Lee Wan-koo   South Korea Prime Minister of South Korea (2015) 2016 Bribery[92]
  Yingluck Shinawatra   Thailand Prime Minister of Thailand (2011-2014) 2017 Corruption[93]
  Choi Kyoung-hwan   South Korea Prime Minister of South Korea (2015) 2018 Bribery[94]
  Chimediin Saikhanbileg   Mongolia Prime Minister of Mongolia (2014-2016) 2018 Corruption[95]
  Sanjaagiin Bayar   Mongolia Prime Minister of Mongolia (2007-2009) 2018 Corruption[95]
  Ma Ying-jeou   Taiwan President of the Republic of China (2008-2016) 2018 Leaking classified information[96]
  Almazbek Atambayev   Kyrgyzstan President of Kyrgyzstan (2011-2017) 2018 Murder[97]
  Maumoon Abdul Gayoom   Maldives President of the Maldives (1978-2008) 2018 Treason[98]
  Lee Myung-bak   South Korea President of South Korea (2008-2013) 2018 Bribery[99]
  Park Geun-hye   South Korea President of South Korea (2013-2017) 2018 Bribery[100]
  Khaleda Zia   Bangladesh Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991-1996 & 2001–2006) 2018 Corruption[101]
  Nawaz Sharif   Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan (1990-1993, 1997-1999 & 2013–2017) 2018 Corruption[102][103][104]
  Abdulla Yameen   Maldives President of the Maldives (2013-2018) 2019 Corruption[105]
  Thaksin Shinawatra   Thailand Prime Minister of Thailand (2001-2006) 2019 Corruption[106]
  Surapong Tovichakchaikul   Thailand Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (2012-2014) 2019 Corruption[107]
  Nur Bekri   China Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
People's Government (2008-2014)
2019 Bribery[108]
  Pervez Musharraf   Pakistan President of Pakistan (2001-2008) 2019 Treason[109]
  Asif Ali Zardari   Pakistan President of Pakistan (2008-2013) 2019 Corruption[110]
  Najib Razak   Malaysia Prime Minister of Malaysia (2009-2018) 2019 Corruption[111]
  Zhantoro Satybaldiyev   Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (2012-2014) 2019 Corruption[112]
  Sapar Isakov   Kyrgyzstan Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (2017-2018) 2019 Corruption[112]
  Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi   Yemen President of Yemen (2012–2022) 2020 Treason[113]
  Aung San Suu Kyi   Myanmar State Counsellor of Myanmar (2016-2021) 2021 Illegally importing walkie-talkies[114]
  Imran Khan   Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan (2018-2022) 2023 Corruption[115]

Europe edit

Portrait Name Countries Official position Later imprisonment Reason
  Valerian Roman Empire Emperor of Rome (253-260) 260 Overthrown
  Mary, Queen of Scots   Scotland Queen of Scotland (1542-1567) 1587 Treason (Executed by beheading)
  Charles I of England   England,   Scotland &   Ireland King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625-1649) 1649 Overthrown (Executed by beheading)
  Louis XVI of France   France King of France (1774-1792) 1793 Overthrown (Executed by beheading)
  Lajos Batthyány   Hungary Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1848) 1849 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)
  Nicholas II of Russia   Russia Emperor of Russia (1894-1917) 1917 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)
  Carol II of Romania   Romania King of Romania (1930-1940) 1940 Overthrown
  Géza Lakatos   Hungary Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1944) 1945 Crimes against humanity
  Bogdan Filov   Bulgaria Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1940-1943) 1945 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Dobri Bozhilov   Bulgaria Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1943-1944) 1945 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Benito Mussolini   Italy Prime Minister of Italy (1922-1945) 1945 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Philippe Pétain   France Chief of the Government (1940) & Chief of the French State (1940-1944) 1945 Treason
  Pierre Laval   France Chief of the Government (1931-1932, 1935-1936, 1940 & 1942-1944) 1945 Treason (Executed by firing squad)
  Vidkun Quisling   Norway Minister President of Norway (1942-1945) 1945 Treason (Executed by firing squad)
  Risto Ryti   Finland President of Finland (1940-1944) 1945 Treason
  Ibrahim Biçakçiu   Albania Prime Minister of Albania (1944) 1945 Crimes against humanity
  Georgios Tsolakoglou   Greece Prime Minister of Greece (1941-1942) 1945 Treason
  Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov   Bulgaria Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1944) 1945 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Petar Gabrovski   Bulgaria Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1943) 1945 Crimes against humanity
  Wilhelm Frick   Nazi Germany Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1943-1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Ferenc Szálasi   Hungary Head of State of Hungary (1944-1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Döme Sztójay   Hungary Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1944) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Karl Hermann Frank   Nazi Germany Reich Minister for Bohemia and Moravia (1942-1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Hans Frank   Nazi Germany Governor-General of the General Government of Occupied Poland (1939-1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Kurt Daluege   Nazi Germany Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1942-1943) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Kostaq Kotta   Albania Prime Minister of Albania (1928-1930 & 1936–1939) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Béla Imrédy   Hungary Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1938-1939) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Ion Antonescu   Romania Prime Minister of Romania (1940-1944) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Ioannis Rallis   Greece Prime Minister of Greece (1943-1944) 1946 Treason
  Konstantinos Logothetopoulos   Greece Prime Minister of Greece (1943-1944) 1946 Treason
  Arthur Seyss-Inquart   Nazi Germany Chancellor of Austria (1938) & Reich Commissioner of the Netherlands (1940-1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  László Bárdossy   Hungary Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1941-1942) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by firing squad)
  Karl Dönitz   Nazi Germany President of the German Reich (1945) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Johan Wilhelm Rangell   Finland Prime Minister of Finland (1941-1943) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Konstantin von Neurath   Nazi Germany Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1943) 1946 Crimes against humanity
  Jan Syrový   Czechoslovakia Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1938) 1945 Treason
  Rudolf Beran   Czechoslovakia Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1938-1939) & Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939) 1941 & 1945 Treason
  Emil Hácha   Czechoslovakia President of Czechoslovakia (1938-1939) & President of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945) 1945 Treason
  Alois Eliáš   Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941) 1941 Treason (Executed by firing squad)
  Jaroslav Krejčí   Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1941-1945) 1945 Treason
  Richard Bienert   Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Prime Minister of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1945) 1945 Treason
  Vojtech Tuka   Slovakia Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic (1939-1944) 1946 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Jozef Tiso   Slovakia President of the Slovak Republic (1939-1945) 1947 Crimes against humanity (Executed by hanging)
  Erich Koch   Nazi Germany Gauleiter of Gau East Prussia (1928-1945), Oberpräsident of East Prussia (1933-1945), Reichskommissar of Ukraine (1941-1944) & Reichskommissar for the Ostland (1944-1945) 1950 Crimes against humanity
  Konstantin Päts   Estonia President of Estonia (1938-1940) 1952 Anti-Soviet agitation
  Imre Nagy   Hungary Prime Minister of Hungary (1953-1955 & 1956) 1958 Overthrown (Executed by hanging)
  Zoltán Tildy   Hungary Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1945-1946) & President of Hungary 1958 Overthrown
Georgios Zoitakis   Greece Regent of Greece (1967-1972) 1974 Treason and Insurrection
  Georgios Papadopoulos   Greece President of Greece (1973) & Prime Minister of Greece (1967-1973) 1974 Treason and Insurrection
  Nicolae Ceaușescu   Romania President of Romania (1974-1989) 1989 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)
  Todor Zhivkov   Bulgaria General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1954-1989) 1990 Overthrown[116]
  Egon Krenz   East Germany Chairman of the State Council (1989) 1990 Manslaughter[117]
  Erich Honecker   East Germany General Secretary of East Germany (1971-1989) 1992 Manslaughter[118]
Adil Çarçani   Albania Prime Minister of Albania (1981-1991) 1994 Abuse of office[119][120]
  Slobodan Milošević   Serbia President of Yugoslavia (1997-2000) & President of Serbia (1989-1997) 2001 Crimes against humanity
  Biljana Plavšić   Republika Srpska President of Republika Srpska (1996-1998) 2003 Crimes against humanity[121]
  Milan Babić   Republic of Serbian Krajina President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (1991-1992) & Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (1995) 2004 Crimes against humanity[122]
  Pavlo Lazarenko   Ukraine Prime Minister of Ukraine (1996-1997) 2004 Fraud[123]
  Momčilo Krajišnik   Bosnia and Herzegovina Serb Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996-1998) 2006 Crimes against humanity[124]
  Ramiz Alia   Albania President of Albania (1991-1992) 2006 Murder[125]
  Milan Martić   Republic of Serbian Krajina President of Republic of Serbian Krajina (1994-1995) 2007 Crimes against humanity[126]
  Vlado Bučkovski   Macedonia Prime Minister of Macedonia (2004-2006) 2008 Corruption[127]
  Nikola Šainović   Serbia Prime Minister of Serbia (1993-1994) & Deputy Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia (1994-2000) 2009 Crimes against humanity[128]
  Yulia Tymoshenko   Ukraine Prime Minister of Ukraine (2007-2010) 2011 Corruption[129]
  Jacques Chirac   France Prime Minister of France (1974-1976 & 1986–1988) & President of France (1995-2007) 2011 Corruption[130]
  José Sócrates   Portugal Prime Minister of Portugal (2005-2011) 2014 Corruption[131]
  Vano Merabishvili   Georgia Prime Minister of Georgia (2012) 2014 Corruption[132]
  Adrian Năstase   Romania Prime Minister of Romania (2000-2004) 2014 Bribery[133]
  Svetozar Marović   Serbia and Montenegro President of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006) 2016 Corruption[134]
  Vlad Filat   Moldova Prime Minister of Moldova (2009-2013) 2016 Corruption[135]
  Radovan Karadžić   Republika Srpska President of Republika Srpska (1992-1996) 2016 Crimes against humanity[136]
  Robert Kocharyan   Armenia President of Armenia (1998-2008) 2018 Corruption[137]
  Ivo Sanader   Croatia Prime Minister of Croatia (2003-2009) 2018 Corruption[138]
  Mykola Azarov   Ukraine Prime Minister of Ukraine (2010-2014) 2019 Treason[139]
  Viktor Yanukovych   Ukraine President of Ukraine (2010-2014) 2019 Treason[139]
  Serzh Sargsyan   Armenia President of Armenia (2008-2018) 2020 Corruption[140]
  François Fillon   France Prime Minister of France (2007-2012) 2020 Fraud[141]
  Nicolas Sarkozy   France President of France (2007-2012) 2021 Bribery[142][143]
  Mikheil Saakashvili   Georgia President of Georgia (2004-2007 & 2008–2013) 2021[144] Abuse of power[145]
  Nikola Gruevski   North Macedonia Prime Minister of Macedonia (2006-2016) 2022 Money laundering[146]
  Igor Dodon   Moldova President of Moldova (2016-2020) 2022 Corruption
Treason

North America edit

Portrait Name Countries Official position Later imprisonment Reason
  Jefferson Davis   USA President of the Confederate States of America (1862-1865) 1865 Treason[147]
  Oreste Zamor   Haiti President of Haiti (1914) 1915 Illegal entry[148]
  Élie Lescot   Haiti President of Haiti (1941-1946) 1946 Overthrown[149]
  Franck Sylvain   Haiti President of Haiti (1957) 1957 Overthrown[150]
Maurice Bishop   Grenada Prime Minister of Grenada (1979-1983) 1983 Overthrown (Executed by firing squad)[151]
  Norman Saunders   Turks and Caicos Islands Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1980-1985) 1985 Drug smuggling[152]
  Bernard Coard   Grenada Prime Minister of Grenada (1983) 1986 Murder[153]
  Prosper Avril   Haiti President of Haiti (1988-1990) 2001 Conspiracy, murder[154]
  Basdeo Panday   Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1995-2001) 2006 Fraud[155]
  McKeeva Bush   Cayman Islands Premier of the Cayman Islands (2009-2012) 2012 Corruption[156]
  Jean-Claude Duvalier   Haiti President of Haiti (1971-1986) 2013 Corruption[157]
  David Brandt   Montserrat Chief Minister of Montserrat (1997-2001) 2015 Child sex abuse[158]
  Michael Misick   Turks and Caicos Islands Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands (2003-2006) & Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (2006-2009) 2019 Fraud[159]
  Andrew Fahie   British Virgin Islands Premier of the Virgin Islands (2019-2022) 2022 Drug Trafficking[160]

Oceania edit

Portrait Name Countries Official position Later imprisonment Reason
  Steve Christian   Pitcairn Islands Mayor of Pitcairn Islands (1999-2004) 2004 Child sex abuse[161]
  Laisenia Qarase   Fiji Prime Minister of Fiji (2000-2006) 2012 Corruption[162]
  Gaston Flosse   French Polynesia President of French Polynesia (1984-1987, 1991–2005, 2008 & 2013–2014) 2013 Corruption[163]
  Mahendra Chaudhry   Fiji Prime Minister of Fiji (1999-2000) 2014 Fraud[164]
  Moana Carcasses Kalosil   Vanuatu Prime Minister of Vanuatu (2013-2014) 2015 Bribery[165]
  Serge Vohor   Vanuatu Prime Minister of Vanuatu (1995-1998, 2004, 2009 & 2011) 2015 Bribery[166]
  Mike Warren   Pitcairn Islands Mayor of Pitcairn Islands (2008-2013) 2016 Child sex abuse[167]
  Oscar Temaru   French Polynesia President of French Polynesia (2004, 2005–2006, 2007–2008, 2009 & 2011–2013) 2019 Fraud[168]
  Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō   Tonga Prime Minister of Tonga (2010-2014) 2020 Bribery[169]
  Frank Bainimarama   Fiji Prime Minister of Fiji (2007-2022) & President of Fiji (2000, 2006-2007) 2023 Abuse of Office[170]

South America edit

Portrait Name Countries Official position Later imprisonment Reason
  José María Vargas   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1835–1836) 1835 Overthrown. Briefly put into house arrest during the Revolution of the Reforms[171]
  José Antonio Páez   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1830–1835) 1849 Prisoner of war
  José Gregorio Monagas   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1851–1855) 1858 March Revolution[172]
  Julián Castro   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1858–1859) 1859 Overthrown[173]
  Francisco I. Madero   Mexico President of Mexico (1911-1913) 1913 Overthrown (executed by firing squad)
  Washington Luís   Brazil President of Brazil (1926-1930) 1930 Overthrown[174][175][176]
  Isaías Medina Angarita   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1941–1945) 1945 Overthrown[177]
  Rómulo Gallegos   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1948) 1948 Overthrown
  Café Filho   Brazil President of Brazil (1954-1955) 1955 Attempted coup[178][179][180]
  Marcos Pérez Jiménez   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1953–1958) 1963 Corruption[181]
  João Goulart   Brazil President of Brazil (1961-1964) 1964 Overthrown
  Isabel Perón   Argentina President of Argentina (1974-1976) 1976 Overthrown
  Henck Arron   Suriname Prime Minister of Suriname (1975-1980) 1980 Overthrown[182]
  Roberto Eduardo Viola   Argentina President of Argentina (1981) 1983 Murder[183]
  Leopoldo Galtieri   Argentina President of Argentina (1981-1982) 1986 Mishandling of the Falklands War[184]
Salvador Jorge Blanco   Dominican Republic President of the Dominican Republic (1982-1986) 1988 Corruption[185]
  Manuel Noriega   Panama President of Panama (1983-1989) 1989 Drug trafficking
  Luis García Meza   Bolivia President of Bolivia (1980-1981) 1995 Crimes against humanity[186]
  Carlos Andrés Pérez   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1974–1979, 1989–1993) 1996 Corruption
  Augusto Pinochet   Chile President of Chile (1974-1990) 1998 Crimes against humanity
  Fabián Alarcón   Ecuador President of Ecuador (1997-1998) 1999 Fraud[187]
  Hugo Chávez   Venezuela President of Venezuela (1999–2002, 2002–2013) 2002 Attempted coup
  Arnoldo Alemán   Nicaragua President of Nicaragua (1997-2002) 2003 Corruption[188]
  Errol Alibux   Suriname Prime Minister of Suriname (1983-1984) 2003 Forgery[189][non-primary source needed]
  Luis Ángel González Macchi   Paraguay President of Paraguay (1999-2003) 2006 Corruption[190]
  Gregorio Conrado Álvarez   Uruguay President of Uruguay (1981-1985) 2007 Crimes against humanity[191]
  Alberto Fujimori   Peru President of Peru (1990-2000) 2009 Corruption and human rights violations[192]
  Manuel Zelaya   Honduras President of Honduras (2006-2009) 2009 Overthrown
  Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier   Costa Rica President of Costa Rica (1990-1994) 2009 Corruption[193]
  Reynaldo Bignone   Argentina President of Argentina (1982-1983) 2010 Murder[194]
  Jorge Rafael Videla   Argentina President of Argentina (1976-1981) 2010 Murder[195]
  Juan María Bordaberry   Uruguay President of Uruguay (1972-1976) 2010 Crimes against humanity[196]
  Miguel Ángel Rodríguez   Costa Rica President of Costa Rica (1998-2002) 2011 Corruption[197]
  Efraín Ríos Montt   Guatemala President of Guatemala (1982-1983) 2014 Crimes against humanity[198]
  Alfonso Portillo   Guatemala President of Guatemala (2000-2004) 2014 Bribery[199]
  Jamil Mahuad   Ecuador President of Ecuador (1998-2000) 2014 Corruption[200]
  Carlos Menem   Argentina President of Argentina (1989-1999) 2015 Corruption[201]
  Otto Pérez Molina   Guatemala President of Guatemala (2010-2015) 2015 Corruption[202]
  Gerrit Schotte   Curaçao Prime Minister of Curacao (2010-2012) 2016 Bribery[203]
  Ollanta Humala   Peru President of Peru (2011-2016) 2017 Corruption[204]
  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva   Brazil President of Brazil (2003-2010 & 2023–present) 2017 Corruption[205]
  Álvaro Colom   Guatemala President of Guatemala (2008-2012) 2018 Corruption[206]
  Antonio Saca   El Salvador President of El Salvador (2004-2009) 2018 Corruption[207]
  Alejandro Toledo   Peru President of Peru (2001-2006) 2019 Corruption[208]
  Pedro Pablo Kuczynski   Peru President of Peru (2016-2018) 2019 Corruption[209]
  Michel Temer   Brazil President of Brazil (2016-2018) 2019 Corruption and money laundering[210]
  Evo Morales   Bolivia President of Bolivia (2006-2019) 2019 Overthrown
  Álvaro Uribe   Colombia President of Colombia (2002-2010) 2020 Bribery and witness tampering[211]
  Ashwin Adhin   Suriname Vice President of Suriname (2015-2020) 2020 Corruption[212]
  Jeanine Áñez   Bolivia President of Bolivia (2019-2020) 2021 Overthrown[213]
  Juan Orlando Hernández   Honduras President of Honduras (2014-2022) 2022 Drug trafficking[214]
  Dési Bouterse   Suriname President of Suriname (2010-2020) & Chairman of the National Military Council (1980-1987) 2022 Murder[215]
  Pedro Castillo   Peru President of Peru (2021–2022) 2022 Treason, rebellion, and corruption
  Fernando Collor   Brazil President of Brazil (1990-1992) 2023 Corruption[216]

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