Freedom House was founded in October 1941.

Police use them to detect and repress dissidents.

Many Chinese dissidents take the same view.

Do governments have to lock up dissidents in order to deliver prosperity?

Under his reign over 1000 dissidents have been arrested.

Will criminal action be taken against political dissenters?

On Weibo, there is a small circle of dissidents among overseas Chinese communities.

Turkmen dissident voices also focus on the issue of freedom of religion in the country.

Chinese dissidents families torn apart over mysterious open letter

I could understand the poets, students, dissidents, and allegedly disaffected government officials.

The exact number of democratic dissidents who have been incarcerated, or worse, is unknown.

International official protests and heightened press scrutiny on behalf of brutalized dissidents means less bloodshed.

In the time of the Soviet Union, the KGB would have indicted these anti Putin dissidents for mental disorders.

Moreover, persecution of political dissenters does not now reach far beyond the accused to involve their associates.

The Iranian regime has a long history of targeting political dissidents abroad, particularly in Turkey.

Many political dissidents in South Korea were inspired by their Christian beliefs, and the same is true in China.

In 2000, he wrote about a poetry contest in Cuba run by the dissident group Reflection.

When a group of dissident Jews conspired in 1970 to highjack an airplane, they were charged with attempted treason.

The prosecutor s office believes that the crime cannot go unpunished, so as to not set a precedent for other HIV dissidents.

At least 500 human rights activists and dissidents have been arrested and sent to prison.

Dissidents in Singapore were often locked up and maltreated, but no one was tortured to death.

For dissidents and political prisoners, or for refugees living in exile, the tours organized by the Times is a slap in the face.

Both groups comprise scholars from numerous fields, state intellectuals serving in government think tanks, journalists and even some dissidents. Liberals are known to favor more thorough economic and political reforms, such as democratization at the grassroots level and a free press.

Both groups comprise scholars from numerous fields, state intellectuals serving in government think tanks, journalists and even some dissidents.

At the end of last year, Saint Petersburg sociologists presented the results of the first Russian study on the so called HIV dissident movement.

The report highlights the increase in short term arbitrary detentions of dissidents and independent journalists in Cuba.

Second, their participation is also indicative of the adaptability and pragmatism of these dissidents and of Iranian voters in general.

Nevertheless, despite his long tenure, the Dear Leader s hold on power sometimes has been threatened by a small group of dissidents.

This partly explains why Libyans are willing to embrace dissidents who lived abroad for decades, about whom they know little.

From Burma to Nigeria, the world pays close attention to the free speech rights of political dissidents.

(i) The continuing persecution and arbitrary sentencing to prison of human rights defenders, political opponents, religious dissenters and reformists

Banuk Karima Baloch, who is the chairperson of the Baloch Student Organization, mobilizes young dissidents and separatists in Balochistan in Pakistan's southwest.

For 30 years, the Islamic Republic has relied on the heavy hand of the internal security apparatus to silence dissidents and critics.

For example, Bush assigned a low priority to Kurds and Shia in Iraq, to dissidents in China, and to Bosnians in the former Yugoslavia.

Iraqi embassies acted as media centers, along with their despicable role in hunting dissidents of all political stripes.

Solzhenitsyn, one of the most famous and heroic dissidents of the Soviet era, now seems certain to become a towering figure in the iconography of Putinism.

Partisan abuse of the country's administrative structures to discourage dissent is widespread, particularly the use of tax collectors to harass opponents.

In March 2003, 75 dissidents, many of them journalists, were arrested by the Cuban government in what has been called by some The Black Spring.

In the Philippines, activists held rallies across the country to highlight the detention of dissidents and the militarization of anti mining communities.

But because arrest no longer meant execution but long imprisonment, dissidents acquired a reasonable chance to emerge from prison or labor camps.

In 1989, the fall of repressive East European regimes in quick succession stunned the world, including dissidents who had long recognized communism s vulnerabilities.

An open letter urging China President Xi Jinping to resign has triggered a rash of political persecution against the family members of Chinese dissidents living abroad.

Amnesty has called the PSA a lawless law and documented its rampant use in Kashmir, where it is used to criminalize and penalize political dissenters.

In his speech to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s death on June 4, Khamenei fully appropriated the discourse of the dissident clerics aligned with Khatami.

According to Human Rights Watch, at least 800 people have died, and thousands of political opponents and hundreds of dissidents have been accused of terrorism.