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Prior to his fame, Soviet dissident, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was arrested for criticizing Stalin in private correspondence with a friend. He was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp.†
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Chinese dissident, Harry Wu, says he was beaten, tortured and nearly starved to death for protesting official policy.†
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To the extent that we want to address such issues as the treatment of political dissidents and the protection of intellectual property rights, those matters should be handled through diplomatic channels.† (source)
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He was crossing the wide green lawn, passing the new sculpture by that Chinese dissident—she remembered she should highlight it soon, maybe even today—and just then he turned briefly, as if checking to see if Mae was still following.† (source)
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When a prominent dissident was arrested in China, we would write a front-page article; when 100,000 girls were routinely kidnapped and trafficked into brothels, we didn't even consider it news.† (source)
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We've been hearing for some time about a dissident faction inside their intelligence community, one that does not especially love the Soviets.† (source)
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Most dissidents now are executed, or held under conditions that make them wish for execution.† (source)
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But Kennedy would go on to become a self-described "dissident at large," writing numberless articles and several books that railed against bigotry.† (source)
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Jack had seen Denker the teacher as not much different from the strutting South American little Caesars in their banana kingdoms, standing dissidents up against the wall of the handiest squash or handball court, a super-zealot in a comparatively small puddle, a man whose every whim becomes a crusade.† (source)
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She read Sayyid Qutb, the dissident Egyptian writer regarded as the founder of modern Islamism, and slogged her way through Ibn Taymiyyah, the thirteenth-century Islamic theologian who, according to many experts in the field, was the wellspring for it all.† (source)
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"We best a free the dissidents and the Jews, but you insist on keeping a fifty-eight-year-old woman who was best a simple courier!" whispered the Russian, spitting out the words.† (source)
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In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.† (source)
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The nineteen men from Brazzaville were stashed, along with other Kabila rivals and political dissidents, into a high-security section of Makala called Pavilion One.† (source)
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I believe that it is only through empathy that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child, or an Iraqi prisoner becomes real to me and not just passing news.† (source)
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He gave a speech in 1936 stating that the executions were the only way to rid the Soviet Union of the dissidents striving to undermine its grand success.† (source)
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It was in 1986, not long after Baby Doc left Haiti, an event that marked the end of the Duvaliers' reign, which was being followed by what dissident Haitians called Duvalierism without Duvalier, with the Haitian army generally taking on the dictatorial role.† (source)
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