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- So You Want to Be a Dissident? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/so-you-want-to-be-a-dissident 1 comment
- Saudi Arabia wanted the names of 6000 anonymous Twitter Arab Spring dissidents https://twitter.com/muellershewrote/status/1698827051556618679 3 comments
- So You Want to Be a Dissident? | A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/so-you-want-to-be-a-dissident 62 comments politics
- Cuba wants American diplomats to scale back aid for dissidents before the two countries can reopen embassies in each other's capitals. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/03/us-cuba-usa-iduskbn0l70aq20150203 8 comments worldnews
- Saudi Arabia's anti-dissident death squad wants a bonus — and Donald Trump is silent https://www.salon.com/2019/03/18/saudi-arabias-anti-dissident-death-squad-wants-a-bonus-and-donald-trump-is-silent/ 6 comments politics
- 'I'm wanted by China, I fear even the UK isn't safe as a Hong Kong dissident' https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/wanted-china-uk-safe-hong-kong-dissident-3455192 91 comments china
- Russian Dissident Offers $1M Bounty for Putin's Arrest amid Invasion: 'Wanted to Send a Message' https://people.com/politics/russian-dissident-puts-arrest-bounty-on-vladimir-putin-amid-ukraine-invasion/ 11 comments worldnews
- A Croatian court ruled on Wednesday that a communist-era intelligence chief could be extradited to Germany where he is wanted over a killing of a Yugoslav dissident in the 1980s. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/08/us-croatia-spy-extradition-idusbrea070td20140108?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=992637 5 comments europe
- Pinar Selek, a Turkish-French dissident sociologist living in France, will not go to Turkey to face trial. Turkey has accused Selek over a 1998 explosion that killed seven people and, even after four acquittals, wants to try her again after issuing an international arrest warrant in January https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230324-dissident-selek-says-won-t-return-to-turkey-to-stand-trial 8 comments worldnews
- Nearly a week after his arrest, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, a prominent Ugandan satirical novelist and critic of President Yoweri Museveni made a surprise visit home under guard. Security forces wanted to search the dissident writer’s house, His wife saw visible signs of torture of her husband https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20220104-detained-ugandan-satirical-novelist-displays-signs-of-torture-on-brief-home-visit 8 comments worldnews
- No, Belarusian dissident Protasevich is not a neo-Nazi. But the Kremlin sure wants you to think so http://euromaidanpress.com/2021/05/26/protasevich-is-a-dissident-not-a-neo-nazi/ 366 comments europe
- Turkey wants Saudi authorities to tell them where Jamal Khashoggi’s body is, after authorities in Riyadh admitted the dissident journalist was murdered in a premeditated attack at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jamal-khashoggi-turkey-demands-body-location-saudi-arabia-consulate-istanbul-a8612411.html 128 comments worldnews
- China wants to cement in law police powers to hold dissidents and other suspects of state security crimes in secret locations without telling their families http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/us-china-law-detention-idustre77t2hj20110830?feedtype=rss&feedname=worldnews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+reuters%2Fworldnews+%28news+%2F+us+%2F+international%29 128 comments worldnews
- China gives it's first peace prize the day before the Norwegian Nobel committee honors Chinese dissident: "Europe is full of small countries that had fought each other for centuries, we don't want to see people who don't understand peace to ruin the concept." http://www.cnn.com/2010/world/asiapcf/12/09/china.confucius.peace/index.html 4 comments worldnews