Some senior officials were dismissed because of their political views or ethnic or tribal background, in what was effectively a witch hunt.

Police use them to detect and repress dissidents.

Those in power have to resist the temptation to crack down on dissidents.

Now, there were two dissenters, one of whom was Justice Scalia.

They are falling like leaves in autumn, he recently said of the regime s defectors.

They pale in comparison to the risks taken by dissidents in closed societies.

Subversive youths in Hitler s Germany the Swing Jugend secretly listened to jazz.

In March 2009, two soldiers and a Police Officer were killed in separate dissident republican attacks in Northern Ireland.

The Repentance Act illustrates clearly how Peru deals with deserting terrorists who wish to rejoin society.

General Secretary Yuri Andropov died in 1984, leaving behind a country cleansed of dissidents.

However, several key dissident factions and their leaders opted to remain outside the process altogether.

Moreover, persecution of political dissenters does not now reach far beyond the accused to involve their associates.

Many political dissidents in South Korea were inspired by their Christian beliefs, and the same is true in China.

Not surprisingly, defectors nowadays describe an environment of social breakdown, petty crime, and a Darwinian struggle for survival.

In this way, Putin s regime intensifies political dissenters longing for retaliation thereby hindering peaceful change.

The breakdown in this tragedy is as follows At least 28,026 civilians, 1,379 defectors, 10,150 soldiers and 574 unidentified people have been killed in Syria in the past 20 months, .

Repression of political dissent, executions, torture and discrimination against women and minorities had continued with impunity and the Iranian authorities had ignored the recommendations of the Working Group against Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

In the time of the Soviet Union, the KGB would have indicted these anti Putin dissidents for mental disorders.

Banning certain opinions, no matter how perverse, has the effect of elevating their proponents into dissidents.

But it is just this highly personalized form of politics that the Saudi royals have adopted with defecting Al Qaeda s members.

A local online publication, the Barotse Post, reported that the soldiers sent to the area pulled out after failing to find rebels

It was the first time in the Argentine trials that genocide had been applied to the assaults against the class of political dissidents.

Some of the Damascus Spring reformers arrested in 2001 remained in detention and security forces continued to torture, arbitrarily arrest and detain dissidents.

On the tenth anniversary of that invasion, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuron, and I, along with other dissidents, met on the Czech Polish border.

Western diplomats had their countries economic interests to consider, but, unlike the Soviet side, they took seriously the idea of dissidents or trade.

Putin s and Medvedev s poll numbers are so high, many argue, that they don t need to care about a few dissenters.

In sentencing him to life imprisonment, the tribunal said that the dictatorship's state terrorism against political dissidents was a form of genocide.

The very nature of the State impedes various freedoms such as expression belief opinion, since political dissidents are not tolerated and are punished severely.

As Havel had foreseen, his job (and that of the small circle of dissidents surrounding him) would then be to fan that spark, stoke the fire and guide it.

The November 30, 2012 order came after it was reported that the rebels were recruiting former soldiers and policemen to serve in the Barotse Liberation Army.

10. Regrets the recent harsh sentences meted out to a number of dissidents, including persons voicing dissent in regard to the procedures of the National Convention

According to the wife of a North Korean defector who worked for 20 years as a nuclear scientist at Yongbyon, safety standards there are dangerously lax.

This spring marks the third anniversary of the wave of repression in which Fidel Castro s regime arrested and handed down long sentences to 75 leading Cuban dissidents.

This infant democracy was harshly interrupted when martial law was imposed in December 1981, with Solidarity outlawed and dissidents arrested.

A wave of military, government, and diplomatic defections, led by his long time ally First Armored Brigade Commander General Ali Muhsin al Ahmar, rocked his regime.

Thirdly, there are a significant number of allegations concerning the coalescing of dissident factions of former Ituri armed groups, and newly emerging resupply corridors.

Natan Sharansky said that this tactic the West tracking and demanding accountability for the treatment of individual internal dissenters helped break up the Soviet Union.

Nevertheless, despite his long tenure, the Dear Leader s hold on power sometimes has been threatened by a small group of dissidents.

International immigration transformed the local culture from Spanish origins and Amerindian origins, including the construction of the first non Catholic cemetery of Chile, The Cemetery of Dissidents.

And, because ISPs answer to other ISPs, not governments, dissidents and whistleblowers could maintain their anonymity.

Thirty three years ago, Havel helped initiate Charter 77, the landmark document that crystallized the ideals of all the dissidents and many others trapped behind the Iron Curtain.

In Ituri, the success of disarmament and community reintegration notwithstanding, it is alleged that a significant group of hardcore renegades has formed new alliances out of previous Ituri armed group structures.

In 1989, the fall of repressive East European regimes in quick succession stunned the world, including dissidents who had long recognized communism s vulnerabilities.

Bahrain is also silencing those who speak against the ISIS, while turning a blind eye to defectors from its own armed forces, who have climbed the ranks of ISIS and call on Bahrainis to join the organisation.

All of the above in combination with on site inspections led to the identification of the indisputable existence of undeclared activities related to VX.