dissident
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Then, consider the philosophical gap: For instance, Ai is a dissident whose criticism of the Chinese government led to his imprisonment for 81 days in 2011, without any formal charges brought against him.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
"In other words, he's not a classic dissident," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Memorial's first chairman was the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and the group established the largest publicly available database on Gulag victims.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
His offense was trying to close an old life insurance policy that listed his dissident daughter as the beneficiary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
A few days ago, Mr. Washburn was issued revised orders to vacate the compound and have no further dealings with any dissident elements.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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