dissident

Otero Alcantara is one of the most prominent figures in Cuba's new dissident movement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Prominent Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara flew to exile Saturday in the United States after serving a five-year sentence on the island, as Washington urged Havana to release more than 700 political prisoners.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

The prosecution suggested that the disorder which broke out had been deliberately orchestrated by dissident republicans to coincide with the presence of MTV.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

In one message, club leaders warned members of “an improper email blast” from a dissident group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The nearest thing classical music had to a genuine political dissident in the 1930s was the Hungarian modernist Bela Bartok.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

One of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has gone into exile in the US, after leaving Cuba where he had served a five-year prison sentence.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

To monitor Soviet compliance with the Final Act, a group of Soviet dissidents formed the Moscow Helsinki Group in 1976.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Black and Indigenous Americans, labor organizers, immigrants, queer people, political dissidents, abuse survivors, and countless others have discovered that rights celebrated in the abstract can evaporate when exercised against the wrong forces.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026

She said last year she had turned down France's highest civilian honour, the legion d'honneur, accusing the country of "hypocrisy" over visa policies that prevented dissidents travelling from Iran to France.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Though a few dissidents still thought he was a laughing talking-machine, he nonetheless saw problems through to the finish line.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson