oppositionist

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Kolesnikova and her fellow oppositionist Maxim Znak, who got 10 years, were tried behind closed doors on unfounded charges, a spokesperson of the EU's executive Commission said on Monday.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2021

German foreign ministry spokesperson Andrea Sasse said Kolesnikova and her fellow oppositionist Maxim Znak, who got 10 years, were campaigners for freedom, democracy and human rights and could count on the German government's solidarity.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2021

“The entire tour of the oppositionist was well-concealed and even the ‘federals’ did not know about his plans,” Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2020

One cannot help supposing that in these routine interrogations it was greatly to Morgen’s advantage to portray himself as a routine bureaucratic cog, as he could scarcely have claimed to be some kind of oppositionist.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2015

His attitude of mind was rather that of an oppositionist, upon whom the functions of independent critic sat more easily than the compromises and discipline entailed by party leadership.

From The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by Colquhoun, A. H. U. (Arthur Hugh Urquhart)