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political dissident

NOUN
  1. a dissenter from political orthodoxy

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  • Kate Augusto, Danielle Capalbo and Nick Mendez report that Ayman Nour, a leading political dissident in Egypt, has decided to return to prison and finish his sentence in order to dramatize what he calls the Egyptian government's ongoing lack of respect for democratic values. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Reading the stories of political dissidents, it is impossible not to be awed by their courage and their inner strength. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cuban doctors treating a political dissident who's on hunger strike say he is in danger of dying despite their efforts to keep him alive.
  • If he continues to fancy himself as a political dissident, we have a right to know. The Sun
  • Yet despite this well-known pattern of exploitation, the company announced in January that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had awarded it a 5-year $385 million contract to build immigrant "detention facilities" (prisons) for immigrants arrested on charges of entering the country illegally and to provide construction and logistics support services in the event of an "immigration emergency," a term vague enough to cause activists to suspect the worst -- that they are openly planning to build detention camps for political dissidents. Charlie Cray: Prison Camps: BushCo's Big Growth Industry?
  • There were three main areas, a large camp for the prisoners who were considered to be political dissidents; a small camp that was called a quarantine camp, and tented section for the prisoners arriving from Poland.
  • There are credible reports of chemical experiments conducted against political dissidents. Times, Sunday Times
  • For political dissidents it would mean keeping out of politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons
  • Tens of thousands of political dissidents have been executed for simply not wanting this fascistic regime.
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