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Planning permission for the embassy has previously been challenged amid fears that it could be used to spy on and interrogate dissidents.

NAIROBI, Kenya—The Kenyan government is using special antiterrorism courts—established with U.S. money to combat al Qaeda—to threaten political dissidents with decades in prison.

During the war, the number of dissidents murdered by Hamas’s Arrow Unit enforcers has increased sharply, their bodies dumped in the street or delivered to the front door of their families.

It has felt the heat before; when the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo got the award in 2010, Beijing froze diplomatic ties with Oslo and imposed economic sanctions in a row that lasted six years.

Weiss has cultivated a reputation as a reasonable dissident, eliding outright partisanship and granting her the appearance of neutrality while claiming the mantle to question progressive orthodoxy.