dissident
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The 41-year-old dissident put Hong Kong’s legal system and the Chinese Communist Party on the spot as few others have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Not whether Ellison privately considers himself a conservative, a liberal or a man above ideology, nor whether Weiss thinks of herself as a dissident or a reformer.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 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 Interior Ministry, with an estimated 140,000 state security officials and 500,000 informants, monitors and infiltrates dissident movements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
“It’s about this meg normal guy, who doesn’t think about anything until one wacky day, when he meets a dissident with a heart of gold.”
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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
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
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
In any case, Euergetes acted decisively, defeating the dissidents and importing vast amounts of grain to feed the people.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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