Dissidents in a sentence

After the Communist takeover of China in 1949, many dissidents of the Communists fled to the island, where they established what they believed to be a legitimate Chinese government.

After two years of arrests and persecution against dissidents in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenka’s regime is looking for new ways of dealing with the fallout of the post-election protests that shook the country in 2020 and 2021.

He followed that up with a referendum a year later that enshrined his powers and cracked down on political dissidents, primarily from the conservative Ennahda party, which once held the most seats in the National Assembly.

Human rights groups and Iranian dissidents have previously told The Sun that the prison is riddled with disease, has poor sanitation, and is rife with torture, murder and rape.

They are also demanding a ban on pro-government newspapers that regularly stoke tension with articles targeting political dissidents.

Unuakhalu said that the raid was carried out on Monday, Dec 11, 2023 based on a timely and credible intelligence on activities of the dissidents and outlawed group.

And it persecutes and oppresses its own people, which we’ve seen through the murder of Iranian women and girls, as well as any other dissidents within Iran.

Because of his illness, the award was collected in Stockholm by the poet’s daughter Jana, who also read the Nobel speech (written by a relative), a speech that did not mention the dissidents and did not help anyone.

Both regimes would hunt down dissidents outside of the country to kill them.

Critics said the convictions showed how the sweeping security law is being used against dissidents in the city.

Dissidents relayed to Carter that the boycott was another jab at Soviet leadership.

Fernández, who incidentally bears a passing resemblance to Stanley Tucci, is a fiery progressive, and some suspect that he has been pushing Francis to sideline more-troublesome dissidents.

Formed only in January by dissidents from The Left party, it does not have the same stigma among some voters as the AfD, which the domestic intelligence service considers to have many extremists in its ranks.

It is inconceivable that Washington would tolerate the presence of Russian or Chinese agents and diplomats on its territory if Moscow and Beijing were implicated in killing dissidents on American soil.

It’s as if everything just magically fell into place for the FBI, who desperately needed the 702 program to keep weaponizing their powers against the regime’s political dissidents, and Congress made sure that happened.

Last year, federal prosecutors say, Mr. Lu set up an overseas police station in Manhattan to monitor and intimidate Chinese dissidents.

Republicans were unable to override Kelly’s of big tax bills because three GOP dissidents formed a solid bloc in the Senate with its 11 Democrats to leave GOP leaders one vote short of the 27 votes required.

The dissidents released included Mr Kara-Murza, a Kremlin critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer serving 25 years on charges of treason widely seen as politically motivated, as well as multiple associates of Mr Navalny.

The president said it 'says a lot' about American values that the US also pushed for the release of Russian dissidents being held inside their country.

The report revealed that these countries are engaged in abductions, forced disappearances and forced returns of dissidents to their home countries, where they risk torture, persecution or death.