This is a list of heads of regimes who were later imprisoned. There have been several personalities throughout the history who went on to be Heads of State, or Heads of Government, like Presidents, Prime Ministers or monarchs of their respective nation states, who became prisoners later, including under house arrest.

Some of them are:

Names indexed by surnames	Countries	Dates born	Official positions	Later imprisonment	Dates died
Aisin-Gioro Puyi	Manchukuo	1906-02-07	Emperor (1934-1945), Chief Executive (1932-1934)	1945 to 1959	1967-10-17
Alemán, Arnoldo	Nicaragua	1946-01-23	President (1997-2002)	2002 to present	Living
Antonescu, Ion	Romania	1882-06-15	Prime Minister (1940-1944)	1944 to 1946	1946-06-01 (executed by firing squad)
Ba Maw	Burma (now Myanmar)	1893-02-08	Prime Minister (1937-1939)	1940 to 1942, 1945 to 1946, 1947	1977-05-29
Banana, Canaan	Zimbabwe	1936-03-05	President (1980-1987)	1997 to 2001	2003-11-10
Bayar, Celal	Turkey	1883-05-16	President (1950-1960), Prime Minister (1937-1939)	1960 to 1964 (death sentence commuted)	1986-08-22
Ben Bella, Ahmed	Algeria	1916-12-25	President (1963-1965)	1965 to 1980 (house arrest)	Living
Bhutto, Benazir	Pakistan	1953-06-21	Prime Minister (1988-1990, 1993-1996)		2007-12-27 (assassinated)
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali	Pakistan	1928-01-05	President (1971-1973), Prime Minister (1973-1977)	1977 to 1979	1979-04-04 (executed by hanging)
Bignone, Reynaldo	Argentina	1928-01-21	President (1982-1983)	2007	Living
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel	Central African Republic	1921-02-22	Emperor (1976-1979), President (1966-1976)	1986 to 1993 (death sentence commuted)	1996-11-03
Bozhilov, Dobri	Bulgaria	1884-06-13	Prime Minister (1943-1944)	1944 to 1945	1945-02-01 (executed)
Ceauşescu, Nicolae	Romania	1918-01-26	President (1967-1989)	1989	1989-12-25 (executed by firing squad)
Chaudhry, Mahendra	Fiji	1942-02-09	Prime Minister (1999-2000)	2000 (taken hostage in a coup)	Living
Chen Gongbo	China, Republic of (Wang Jingwei Government)	1892	President (1944-1945)	1945 to 1946	1946 (executed by firing squad)
Chun Doo-hwan	Korea, South	1931-01-18	President (1980-1988)	1996 to 1997 (death sentence commuted)	Living
Deuba, Sher Bahadur	Nepal	1946-06-13	Prime Minister (1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004-2005)	2005 to 2006	Living
Dönitz, Karl	Germany	1891-09-16	President (1945)	1945 to 1956	1980-12-24
Ershad, Hossain Mohammad	Bangladesh	1930-01-01	President (1982-1990)	1990 to 1997	Living
Estrada, Joseph	Philippines	1937-04-19	President (1998-2001)	2001 to present	Living
Filov, Bogdan	Bulgaria	1883-04-09	Prime Minister (1940-1943)	1944 to 1945	1945-02-02 (executed)
Fujimori, Alberto	Peru	1938-07-28	President (1990-2000)	2005 to 2006 (bailed out in Chile), 2007 to present	Living
Galtieri, Leopoldo Fortunato	Argentina	1926-07-15	President (1981-1982)	1983 to 1991	2003-01-12
Gandhi, Indira	India	1917-11-19	Prime Minister (1966-1977, 1980-1984)	1977	1984-10-31
González Macchi, Luis Ángel	Paraguay	1947-12-13	President (1999-2003)	2006 to present	Living
Haile Selassie	Ethiopia	1892-07-23	Emperor (1930-1974)	1974 (house arrest)	1975-08-27
Honecker, Erich	German Democratic Republic	1912-08-25	Chairman of the Council of State (1976-1989)	1992 to 1993	1994-05-29
Hoveida, Amir-Abbas	Iran	1919-02-18	Prime Minister (1965-1977)	1978 to 1979	1979-04-07 (executed by firing squad)
Kaunda, Kenneth	Zambia	1924-04-28	President (1964-1991)	1997 to 1998	Living
Keita, Modibo	Mali	1915-06-04	President (1960-1968)	1968 to 1977	1977-05-16
Koiso, Kuniaki>	Japan	1880-03-22	Prime Minister (1944-1945)	1945 to 1950	1950-11-03
Laurel, José P.	Philippines	1891-03-09	President (1943-1945)	1945 to 1948	1959-11-06
Liu Shaoqi	China, People's Republic of	1898-11-24	President (1959-1968)	1967 to 1968 (house arrest)	1969-11-12
Louis XVI of France	France	1754-08-23	King (1774-1792)	1792 to 1793	1793-01-21 (executed by decapitation (guillotine))
Lumumba, Patrice	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1925-07-02	Prime Minister (1960)	1960 to 1961	1961-01-17
Macías Nguema, Francisco	Equatorial Guinea	1924-01-01	President (1968-1979)	1979	1979-09-29 (executed)
Marcos, Ferdinand	Philippines	1917-09-11	President (1965-1986), Prime Minister (1978-1981)	1988 (indicted)	1989-09-28
Massemba-Débat, Alphonse	Congo, Republic of the	1921	President (1963-1968), Prime Minister (1963)	1977	1977-03-25 (executed)
Menderes, Adnan	Turkey	1899	Prime Minister (1950-1960)	1960 to 1961	1961-09-17 (executed by hanging)
Menem, Carlos	Argentina	1930-07-02	President (1989-1999)	2001	Living
Milošević, Slobodan	Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of	1941-08-20	President (1997-2000)	2001 to 2006	2006-03-11
Mussolini, Benito	Italy	1883-07-29	Prime Minister (1922-1943)	1945	1945-04-28 (executed by firing squad)
Nagy, Imre	Hungary	1896-06-07	Prime Minister (1953-1955, 1956)	1956 to 1958	1958-06-16 (executed by hanging)
Najibullah, Mohammad	Afghanistan	1947	President (1987-1992)	1992 to 1996 (virtual detention)	1996-09-27 (executed by hanging)
Nicholas II of Russia	Russian Empire	1868-05-18	Emperor (1894-1917)	1917 to 1918	1918-07-17 (executed)
Noriega, Manuel	Panama	1935-02-11	Military leader (1983-1989)	1990 to present	Living
Pétain, Philippe	France, Vichy	1856-04-24	Head of State (1940-1944)	1945 to 1951 (death sentence commuted to life imprisonment)	1951-07-23
Pinochet, Augusto	Chile	1915-11-25	President (1974-1990)	1998 to 2006	2006-12-10
Quisling, Vidkun	Norway	1887-07-18	Minister President (1942-1945)	1945	1945-10-24 (executed by firing squad)
Roh Tae-woo	Korea, South	1932-12-04	President (1988-1993)	1995 to 1998	Living
Saddam Hussein	Iraq	1937-04-28	President (1979-2003)	2003 to 2006	2006-12-30 (executed by hanging)
Sharif, Nawaz	Pakistan	1949-12-25	Prime Minister (1990-1993, 1997-1999)	1999 to 2000	Living
Suharto	Indonesia	1921-06-08	President (1967-1998)	2000 (house arrest)	2008-01-27
Sukarno	Indonesia	1901-06-06	President (1945-1967)	1967-1970 (house arrest)	1970-06-21
Tojo, Hideki	Japan	1884-12-30	Prime Minister (1941-1944)	1945 to 1948	1948-12-23 (executed by hanging)
Traoré, Moussa	Mali	1936-09-25	President (1968-1991)	1992 to 2002 (death sentence commuted)	Living
Videla, Jorge Rafael	Argentina	1925-08-21	President (1976-1981)	1985 to 1990 (pardoned)	Living
Viola, Roberto Eduardo	Argentina	1924-10-13	President (1981)	1983 to 1990 (pardoned)	1994-09-30
Yanayev, Gennady	USSR	1937-08-26	Acting President (1991)	1991 to 1994	Living
Zhao Ziyang	China, People's Republic of	1919-10-17	Premier (1983-1987)	1989 to 2005 (house arrest)	2005-01-17

See also

• List of former heads of regimes who were sentenced to death
• List of former heads of regimes who were sentenced to death by hanging

References

External links

• The lives, deaths of dictators