| 单词 | dissident |
| 例句 | Though a few dissidents still thought he was a laughing talking-machine, he nonetheless saw problems through to the finish line. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A few days ago, Mr. Washburn was issued revised orders to vacate the compound and have no further dealings with any dissident elements. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The nearest thing classical music had to a genuine political dissident in the 1930s was the Hungarian modernist Bela Bartok. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “It’s about this meg normal guy, who doesn’t think about anything until one wacky day, when he meets a dissident with a heart of gold.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most dissidents now are executed, or held under conditions that make them wish for execution. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It kills you instantly; that way you can’t be tortured and reveal the names of other dissidents. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But Kennedy would go on to become a self-described “dissident at large,” writing numberless articles and several books that railed against bigotry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z However, if the majority of the organization or the people support a decision, coercion can be used in certain cases against the dissident minority in the interests of the majority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the park itself, it was an American version of a Middle Eastern bazaar, with folk singers, storytellers, beggars, political dissidents, soapbox orators, and even the occasional snake charmer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I’ve heard the men say that there are dissidents everywhere—even among the armed forces and policemen and cabinet members—just waiting for a signal that El Jefe is out of the way. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z In any case, Euergetes acted decisively, defeating the dissidents and importing vast amounts of grain to feed the people. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He said dissident republicans were resolved to attack the peace process, citing the attempted murder of a police officer as he left home in east Belfast with his young family. Northern Ireland needs more police to tackle violence, says chief constable 2013-01-24T12:18:13Z To say the dissidents have options is to understate the matter. The Color of Protest 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Ai was arrested two years ago during a crackdown on dissident bloggers, lawyers and campaigners. His arrest sparked an international outcry. From Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei: A Profanity-Laced Heavy-Metal Music Video 2013-05-22T23:28:50Z The justices have ruled for slave-holders, segregationists, corporate bosses and the very wealthy, he writes, and ignored the rights of workers, consumers, dissidents and the victims of government abuse. 'The Case Against the Supreme Court' pushes for reforms 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z I’m sure that my delight was shared by other dissident feminists everywhere. “Sexism has nothing to do with it”: Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem — and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Armed with the moral authority of his leadership of the Gewandhaus, Mr. Masur convened a meeting of dissidents, musicians and Communist officials to draft a statement calling for nonviolence. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Because, by this time, the oligarch had become a full-blown dissident, who had enormous valence throughout the world, in terms of criticizing Russia. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Frequent references to taking drugs in the band’s lyrics have placed Kneecap at odds with republican dissidents, many of whom have a zero-tolerance policy toward drug use. A Celtic Revival, in Hip-Hop and More 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z His job takes him to the apartments of dissidents, including Adina’s. ‘The Fox Was Ever the Hunter,’ by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Among its most consequential advice was this: “The noble title of ‘dissident’ must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.” Books of The Times: ?Here Comes Trouble? by Michael Moore - Book Review 2011-09-13T12:00:00Z The story is narrated by a young English student who arrives in Bucharest and finds himself in a surveillance society populated by dissidents, party apparatchiks, black-marketeers, diplomats and spies. Revolution narrative 2011-08-04T00:34:37Z As a result, the force must convert one of its own members into a dissident to justify its continued existence. Slawomir Mrozek, a Leading Polish Playwright, Dies at 83 2013-08-28T14:58:53Z Joseph Stalin in Tsaritsin, 1918 … Victor Serge declared himself to be 'an avowed and unequivocal dissident, whom only force can silence'. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-06-05T13:05:59Z Say the words "political dissident," and you tend to think of a deadly earnest character. 'Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry': A glimpse at the dissident artist's world 2012-08-02T20:13:04Z As the Russian Orthodox church championed freedom of speech and of action, Dudko became a mouthpiece for dissidents. The Last Man in Russia, and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough – review 2013-04-13T13:30:01Z When Castro executed three hijackers of a ferry to the United States and imprisoned more than 70 political dissidents, HBO pulled the program two weeks before airtime. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z Bob Dylan is preparing for the first of two concerts in China today, soon after the Chinese government cracked down on dissidents and arrested the artist Ai Weiwei. AUDIO: Will China chain Dylan? 2011-04-06T08:18:42Z Mr. Maleh held gatherings of dissidents at his home during what became known as the Damascus Spring, a brief flowering when many prominent figures called for democratization. Nabil Maleh, Giant of Syrian Cinema, Dies at 79 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Paul sees a news report about a political dissident involuntarily made tiny by an oppressive government and later discovers festering inequality around Leisureland itself. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z His signing of the so-called “Anti-Charter” opposing the dissident Charter 77 statement also did little to dent his popularity. Karel Gott, 'the Czech Sinatra,' dies at 80 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z But those same producers — in a breach of journalistic ethics that might have sparked fierce debates among media critics — gave comfort to hunger strikers and, for a short time, sheltered China’s best-known dissident, Fang Lizhi. How CBS stole the show in covering Tiananmen Square But Gao’s win did little to assuage China’s Nobel anxiety: there are dissident strains in his work, and he is a naturalized French citizen. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In 1967, Mr. Carlisle’s wife met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident author, in Moscow, and agreed to smuggle manuscripts of his novels “The First Circle” and “The Gulag Archipelago” to the West. Henry Carlisle, Aided Oppressed Writers, Dies at 84 2011-07-15T03:31:57Z Many of the biggest stories emerging from China in 2011 are off-limits, including arrests of lawyers and dissidents and the detention of internationally famed artist Ai Weiwei. China's state TV expanding, but fetters remain 2012-01-31T11:37:16Z To measure the American dissidents’ success in electoral or any other quantifiable terms would be beside the point. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z What many people forget is that the dissident still loved Russia: He returned in 1994 and remained there until his death in 2008. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z If Mr. Scott didn’t inspire a lot of respect from critics, he does have some dissident champions among serious cinephiles. An Appraisal: Tony Scott Made Movies as a Maximalist 2012-08-20T21:30:32Z Beyond the lurid “Lady Macbeth,” critics have come to see even Shostakovich’s most triumphal musical gestures as mere surface, hiding the cunning silences of a dissident. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches. Pussy Riot sentenced to two years 2012-08-17T20:13:07Z Shireen, stigmatized by the dissident status of her deceased parents, lives on the edge of poverty, while Atafeh is cushioned by her family’s wealth and privilege. | 'Circumstance': ?Circumstance,? Directed by Maryam Keshavarz - Review 2011-08-25T21:59:50Z Russian dissident artist Pyotr Pavlensky, whose protests against the state have included nailing his scrotum to Moscow's Red Square, has said he plans to seek asylum in France. Russian 'scrotum protest' artist seeks asylum in France 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Examples abound of people whose speech has been curbed: from dissidents in China being locked up or harassed to anticlerical writers in Europe being prosecuted under blasphemy or hate-speech laws. A right, not a duty 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In “My Song,” Belafonte has lessons for subsequent generations—advice for all the young dissidents taking up the movement—and it feels particularly timely to revisit them now. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z One of China's most famous dissidents has appropriated the United States' most famous former prison as a way to highlight the plight of activists held in detention. Dissident artist Ai Weiwei brings exhibit to Alcatraz 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z I was arrested on 19 March 2003 along with 74 other dissidents. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z Some of the artists complied; some were locked up as dissidents; their work wound up in attics and storerooms. ?Decadent? Russian Art, Still Under the Boot?s Shadow 2011-03-07T23:09:00Z But a new generation of military men, with even less tolerance for dissidents, took his place. Dealing with social media buzz: Walt Whitman might understand 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z This year's show honors Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident writer and human rights activist who is currently imprisoned in his home country. Anne Hathaway, Denzel Washington to co-host Nobel peace concert 2010-11-19T02:54:00Z He fled the country in 2011, and has since become a mainstay of dissident dinners in Berlin, New York, and Taipei; after a few drinks, he sometimes sings folk songs and plays a bamboo flute. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The Soviets who took over held power for 40 years, but they arranged their own deportations of dissidents to Siberia during that time and later downplayed the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z The walled-in red-brick prison complex in a tree-lined residential neighborhood was where dissidents and other political prisoners were brought to confess to their “crimes” before being formally tried or expelled from the country. In Berlin, it’s a whole new city, but the Wall’s traces remain After getting a guilt trip from a childhood friend who has become Abbudin’s best-known intellectual dissident, Barry begins to wonder if he can effect change in his homeland before it falls into chaos. FX’s ‘Tyrant’: Like sands through the cliched hourglass, so are the days of our despots Who knows what share of America’s growing conservatism was spurred by Carter’s instinct to throw open the gates and welcome that flood of dissidents? America Is Obsessed With Cuba. But What Do We Know About Its Citizens? 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The great transformation of American Judaism began in the early 19th century with younger religious dissidents who felt alienated from their own faith. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Putin then goes on to liken the string of dead Russian dissidents to the clashes between our police and “several ethnic groups.” Chris Wallace takes on Vladimir Putin, and is not outfoxed 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z These were the three essential points, "superior to all tactical considerations", on which he declared himself to be "an avowed and unequivocal dissident, whom only force can silence". Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-06-05T13:05:59Z Patrick may not quite recover from that last affliction, as some dissidents from the reverence surrounding the St. Aubyn universe have noted. Benedict Cumberbatch Just Crossed the Last Role Off His Bucket List 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z In one of the Underwoods’ more tactless and blatant attempts to get inside their adversaries’ heads, they invite two members of that Russian dissident band as guests to an especially drunken, messy state dinner. House of Cards Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: When Men Were Men 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Estefan, a Cuban-born, Grammy award winning singer and songwriter, held up a photo of the Ladies in White and two gladiola stems, the same flowers the Cuban dissidents carry when marching. Gloria Estefan leads march for Cuban dissidents 2010-03-25T23:25:00Z When he points out that not enough people criticize Saudi Arabia for torturing and murdering political dissidents on fake charges, he is completely right. Bill Maher, atheist fundamentalist: Why he gives nonbelievers a bad name 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z And it’s certainly true that he saw himself as an experimenter, an anti-academic art dissident. They Suffered for Their Cézanne Portraits 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z He was, he told his first C.I.A. contact, “a dissident at heart.” Review: In ‘The Billion Dollar Spy,’ David E. Hoffman Recalls a Cold War Spy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z As the conflict between the democratic opposition and the communist regime intensified toward the end of the 1970s, the director wrote in defense of dissidents and later in support of Solidarity. Leading Polish Filmmaker Andrzej Wajda Dies at 90 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The junta was one of several Latin American dictatorships of the period, which cooperated in a system known as Operation Condor, an extrajudicial campaign of violent repression against political dissidents. Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Havel was the dissident playwright who led the 1989 revolution that toppled four decades of communist rule before becoming the country's president. Rock stars pay costs of tapestry to honor Havel 2012-11-20T17:25:08Z Mr. Camerino said in an interview that he had acted from a sense of solidarity with the Chinese dissident’s troubles with the authorities there, who have forbidden him from traveling abroad. ArtsBeat: Artists Donate Works for Legal Defense of Man Who Smashed Ai Weiwei Vase 2014-02-27T20:07:30Z It is the stomping ground of academics and potheads, hustlers and innocents, dissidents and wing-tipped businessmen, poets and folk singers. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The case against them is seen as serving two functions: a warning to other dissidents, and an appeal to Putin's conservative base. Pussy Riot sentenced to two years 2012-08-17T20:13:07Z Tax collectors and health inspectors are now more likely to shut down dissident groups. Books Of the Times: ‘The Dictator’s Learning Curve,’ by William J. Dobson 2012-06-10T20:56:47Z What astonishes me every time I see it is how eerily prophetic it is in its vision of a world where psychiatric hospitals are used as a means of curing social dissidents. The Hothouse – review 2013-05-09T23:06:09Z And that professional dissident Michael Moore took his anti-Trump act straight there, too, with “The Terms of My Surrender,” which opened this month. Hard Truths or Easy Targets? Confronting the Summer of Trump Onstage 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Bahrain also revoked the nationality of 31 leading dissidents, parliamentarians, clerics and human rights lawyers last week in a step that was condemned by rights organizations. Bahrain opens Arabian Nights-themed national theatre 2012-11-13T17:04:11Z This drifting was frustrating at moments but also felt purposeful, a structural reminder of the subterfuge required by dissident writers working against and within a society ruled by an oppressive bureaucratic regime. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z There are so many others – rock musicians, eccentrics, writers, dissidents – of the same vintage, with different stories to tell, but all variations on the theme. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z Mr. Caminero said on Tuesday that the primary reason for his destruction of the vase was “an act of solidarity with Mr. Ai” to draw attention to his situation, as a dissident, with Chinese authorities. Behind the Smashing of a Vase 2014-02-18T23:01:51Z Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei is now getting his due as a documentary director. Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z He started out as a late 1980s punk dissident in Russia. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Ai was detained trying to board a flight to Hong Kong last month amid a crackdown on dissidents. Detained artist Ai Weiwei's exhibits in UK 2011-05-11T12:01:07Z Ms. Alexievich takes us into a lot of kitchens, once the soul of Russian dissident life. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z He’s a high-ranking political dissident, a thug and a celebrity known as the Milkman. ‘Milkman’ Slogs Through Political and Cultural Tensions in Northern Ireland 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z As the success, fame and apparent popularity of this artist continue to grow, is there still room for a dissident voice? My Anish Kapoor confession 2010-06-10T16:42:00Z And Rankine does not neglect such memorably sinister instances as the mysterious Umbrella Man present at Kennedy’s assassination and the 1978 murder of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov by way of a poisoned ferrule. Review | Everything you always wanted to know about umbrellas (but were afraid to ask) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Earlier, he had been an enthusiastic member of the Communist Party, but had left it and become a dissident. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Even as Mr. Ai revels in his newfound freedom, he is mindful that the life of an exiled dissident has its drawbacks. Ai Weiwei and Warhol, Together Again 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Her winning entry, a multimedia piece with the words “never sorry” written in homage to the Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, earned her $10,000. Web Site Gives Artists Fame in Times Square 2012-06-17T21:53:24Z The camp was initially constructed in 1939 near the Basque town of Gurs as a place to detain political dissidents and refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War. Trimpin's new work evokes images, survivors' memories of Holocaust 2012-05-15T03:02:05Z “Reforming the objective” is a dry euphemism for the repression of dissidents; “youth protection” is code for surveillance. ‘Uppercase Print’ Review: Between the Lines 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z This prize may prove China, with its growing strength, does not have only dissidents who can be accepted by the West. Chinese writer Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T12:40:17Z The nerve agent used in the attack, Novichok, is a Cold War relic that Russia has used before on dissidents. ‘Navalny’ aims to make noise for imprisoned Russian leader 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z She became a priest in the Latin Tridentine church, a dissident sect of Catholicism, a move she later described to the Guardian as “civil disobedience.” The Feminist Trailblazing of Sinéad O’Connor 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Allende died in a coup that was as much about silencing dissident voices as bringing about regime change. Pablo Neruda's importance was as much political as poetic 2013-04-10T09:42:31Z He sees himself as almost alone in taking this position, before remembering that his friend Ai Weiwei, artist, architect and dissident, "is, apart from me, a good architect in China". Wang Shu: the architect challenging China's obsession with scale 2012-12-16T00:05:23Z The sociologist Arlene Stein’s new book delves into the lives of transgender men and other “gender dissidents.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z O’Hara doesn’t have much success in helping sort out the motivations of the others, particularly Meehan’s baffling Jeffrey, who, I suppose aptly enough, joins Ben in making the dissident group’s garbled transmissions. ‘Totalitarians’: Woolly takes a risk and stumbles badly with a murky political satire They also happen to be coordinated by organizations closely tied to or generously funded by the Saudi government, which is now accused of the gruesome killing of a dissident journalist. Museums Forced to Reassess Saudi Ties Amid Uproar Over Journalist’s Fate 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Citizens satisfied with the good times cannot recall this period of brutal crackdown, but dissidents suspect the authorities of drugging the masses. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-08-04T09:00:01Z Her father, a doctor and political dissident, was hanged by the Sierra Leone regime in 1975, when she was 11. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z The Chinese dissident artist spoke while inaugurating an exhibit in the Swiss city of Lausanne that includes some of his political works symbolizing repression. Ai Wei-Wei critical of China at opening of Swiss exhibit 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The tenor has become more shrill under President Xi Jinping who has tightened control over the media, political dissidents and the Internet and has urged more "ideological guidance" at universities. China classrooms must 'keep out' Western values 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z His role was that of the gadfly, the professional dissident, the joker in the pack. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z Those songs had an electric effect on many of them, prompting a dissident doubt about the regime that kept a country in chains. Sixto Rodriguez, Secret Rock Star Behind Searching for Sugar Man 2012-08-21T12:00:30Z He acquired many works by Cold War dissidents, among them Andrei Sakharov's memoir and books by Milovan Djilas and Vaclav Havel. Ashbel Green, editor of Cronkite, dies at age 84 2012-09-19T16:52:12Z In Soviet times, the underground comprised dissidents like scientists and writers, poets and priests, who risked the gulag or exile to dare, in Solzhenitsyn’s phrase, “not to live by the lie.” Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z Michnik, a former dissident who spent six years in prison for agitating against the communist regime, has since become one of the most influential figures in modern democratic Poland. Polish journalist Adam Michnik receives Goethe medal 2011-08-28T11:00:01Z Born in 1953 into a German-speaking minority in Romania, she was both harassed as a political dissident by the authorities and ostracised by her Swabian community for "fouling the nest". Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z But in her quest to give her different dissident voices equal time and equal weight, Ms. Thurber forsakes a persuasive dramatic through line to create what feels like a crowded and noisy op-ed page. Review: ‘The Insurgents’ Stars Cassie Beck in a Lucy Thurber Drama 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z According to his wife, he told her he was asked to assist an investigation into the dissident publishing house. Hong Kong’s publishers keep disappearing. Its autonomy could be next 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Speaking before the concert, Sergei Kovalev, a former dissident and the elder statesman of Russian human rights activism, declared justice dead in Russia and “tyranny its only heir.” Music: Musicians Sound Out for Russian Prisoners 2011-07-07T11:00:05Z She read a letter from the three dissidents thanking PEN and saying their thoughts were with the many others persecuted in Iran and beyond. Hundreds gather for PEN America gala, hosted by Awkwafina 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Smith’s wife Emma objected from the first and never let up, eventually helping to found a dissident anti-polygamist branch of the church after her husband’s death. How the Women of the Mormon Church Came to Embrace Polygamy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The dissident group swelled to 21, with each member staking $1,000–no small amount for some of the faithful. Why Hollywood Is Bullish on Bull Riding 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It turned out a small dissident group was responsible. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z She wants to tell the story of the real horrors that she and her parents fled in the 1980s in Iran, where Zaree was born in the notorious Evin Prison for political dissidents. ‘Born in Evin’ Review: No Place for a Baby, or Anyone Else 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z "When things get worse on the outside, it gets transferred into the colonies," said Lev Ponomarev, a Soviet dissident who runs the Defending Prisoners' Rights foundation. Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony 2012-10-14T10:33:10Z “You ask me if I’m a dissident. When really, I think, I’m more like a clown.” Controversial Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev: 'Dissident? I'm more of a clown' 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z After many arrests, fatalities and ongoing protests, the dissidents won out in the 1960s and authorities approved construction of the Lord’s Ark church — an important early success in the pushback against the Communist government. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The British actor was trying to visit a dissident lawyer in a Chinese village when government-backed guards stopped him and roughed him up. Carpetbagger Blog: Christian Bale Attacked 2011-12-16T16:58:19Z It’s not exactly dissident music but far from Soviet populism. Mirga meets an old master at Disney Hall 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Temperamentally, he began as a dissident, then became a committed revolutionary. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The price of living with The Great Himself (a.k.a. Barnaby the cat) 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z During her time in power, the country saw one of the bloodiest periods in its history and she faced allegations of enabling political killings of leftist dissidents. 'Shadow of history': As Peronism returns, Argentine play explores its darker roots 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The documentary, directed by Cheryl Haines, examines human rights issues by connecting Ai’s personal history and activism with the history of Alcatraz and with those of other political dissidents across time and the world. ‘Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly’ Review: On the Irony of Personal Freedom 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z And, clearly, Mo Yan has not made the right choice, which is to range himself as an outspoken "dissident" against his country's authoritarian regime. Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z Film-makers and actors from around the globe are expected to sign a petition calling for the release of the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Film stars urged to oppose Jafar Panahi imprisonment via online petition 2010-12-21T15:49:23Z There are a scattering of restaurants around the world that are owned by North Korean expats or dissidents and serve regional dishes. Bites: Restaurant Report: Pyongyang in Amsterdam 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z But the report also looks at "crackdowns on dissident voices" in Tibetan regions, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, "which have severely curtailed those peoples' right to express themselves freely". Writers around the world call on China to respect freedom of expression 2013-05-03T06:00:08Z During the 1970s he was invited to Iran, then under the Shah, when dissidents were being hanged naked or toasted on racks by the hated secret police. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z Xiaobo, the dissident who is currently serving 11 years in jail for "subversion", won the Nobel peace prize in 2010, sparking an angry reaction from the Chinese authorities. Nobel winner Mo Yan speaks up for jailed 'subversive' Liu Xiaobo 2012-10-12T10:06:40Z But when Mrs. Thatcher came to visit, the dissidents took to the streets. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z This story hovers over her book, which delves into the lives of transgender men and other “gender dissidents.” ‘Unbound’ Shows Transgender Men Ripping Up Old Scripts 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Then he adds, “I felt I was a dissident in our family.” Movie Review: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ 2012-07-12T23:34:21Z A whole world of embattled classical musicians and brave dissidents pops in three dimensions. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Several of her Cuban supporters, along with unrelated dissident activists, were also arrested last week. Art and politics collide in Tania Bruguera's latest work in Cuba 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z In communist countries during the 1980s, dissidents did their best to annoy, outwit and undermine the apparatchiks with ironic gestures. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z But even decades after Mao started removing the sting from Lu Xun, official discomfort with the writer's dissident tendencies remains. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Brief detentions are the standard response to opposition street protests in a country that frowns on public dissent and views dissidents as mercenaries in the pay of the United States to subvert the government. Bruguera and other Cuban artists detained ahead of protest over decree 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z In Cuba dissidents like us are used to living in fear. Free at last... and they all owe?their lives to Amnesty 2011-04-02T23:11:34Z Within months, she was accompanying Havel, the former dissident playwright, when he came to Washington as his country’s new president. Shirley Temple, Iconic Child Star, Dies at 85 2014-02-11T11:24:36Z One of its ambitions is to dramatize Babel’s life and put it in the context of a century’s assault on dissident, or merely truth-telling, writers. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “The dissident element in culture—punk, mischief, irreverence—is now better represented in politics by a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat than by anything on the left.” The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “A more classic example of a persecuted dissident intellectual does not exist,” he notes about her. Books of The Times: Paul Berman?s ?Flight of the Intellectuals? 2010-05-02T21:52:00Z They simply can’t allow themselves to know the truth about what the dissident calls a “broken system.” Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z He is based on Pericles Franco, known as Periclito, a communist dissident. Reel history | In the Time of the Butterflies: feisty but it doesn't really fly 2010-03-18T09:30:00Z He also withdrew from the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2009 because dissident writers were attending. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z “Caught,” by Christopher Chen, begins with a 15-minute monologue by a Chinese artist, a dissident who’s thrown in jail for a conceptual piece. The week ahead: mead-brewing classes, Chuck Close’s giant faces and, of course, SIFF! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Chinese dissident artist Ai Wei Wei is represented twice in Venice this year, despite being unable to attend in person. Venice Biennale seeks to capture the "unruly" world of art 2013-05-29T16:12:38Z “Age of Delirium” also covers the harsh conditions that Ukrainian coal miners endured, the mistreatment of young Soviet soldiers and how dissidents were sent to psychiatric hospitals, where they were force-fed medications for mental illness. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Plus, a Cuban dissident artist is freed, artists who say no and the wonder that is scream painting. Necessary Links: Saving the NEA, Shia LaBeouf's protest piece, scream painting 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Sizable barriers face Isabelle in her work for the French Resistance, particularly when she volunteers to lead trapped Allied airmen and other dissidents over the Pyrenees on foot, through snowy mountains and past enemy patrols. ‘The Nightingale’: sisters in jeopardy in occupied France 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The UNCRC’s drafters included Article 8 to condemn Argentina for removing children from families of political dissidents and giving them to military couples, a common practice there in the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s. Do abandoned children have the right to know their origins? 2013-02-10T16:00:00Z Chinese artist and provocateur Ai Weiwei relishes the symbolism of displaying his portraits of political dissidents and activists in Washington at a time when human rights and liberties are eroding around the world. Ai Weiwei on creating political art in the Trump era: ‘Be part of the change’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Within months, she was accompanying Havel, the former dissident playwright, when he came to Washington as his country's new president. Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85 2014-02-11T16:39:54Z Their supporters need to keep agitating on behalf of the jailed women and their less well-known fellow dissidents. Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups 2012-12-20T18:35:44Z It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Poetry by jailed Nobel winner coming to US in 2012 2010-12-09T15:02:00Z In December, a court jailed the well-known author Liu Xiaobo for 11 years for inciting subversion, one of the harshest punishments given to a dissident in recent years. Ai Weiwei's world 2010-03-18T08:00:00Z By the 1960s he had turned his energies toward making studio portraits of civil rights workers, politicians and cultural dissidents of various stripes in an America fissured by discord and violence. Art In Review: Richard Avedon: ‘Murals & Portraits’ 2012-07-05T20:36:16Z I do this to remind me of the Chinese dissidents who don’t have freedom of speech or process of law. What 9 Actors and Filmmakers Wore to the Sundance Film Festival 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Apart from the facade of dangling boats, which is titled "Reframe", the exhibition includes Lego-block portraits of four Florentine dissidents of the past, including Dante Alighieri, author of the mediaeval epic poem "The Divine Comedy". Boats evoking refugees hang from Italy palace in Ai Weiwei installation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z But even if old dissidents were in the business of trying to fix song contests, that’s not how Eurovision voting works. Russia Declares War on Eurovision 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Havel, a writer and dissident who was the former Czech president, was a true hero, she said. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z The debate continues about what Shostakovich meant with his 1937 Fifth Symphony, whether the composer acted as a sop to Stalin or employed surreptitiously dissident context to harmonic consonances. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The third highest entry, at number 11, was a documentary about Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Ted has bear hug on UK box office 2012-08-15T11:28:24Z Two weeks after her birth, her father is taken away for speaking against the government, one of a vast number of dissidents fallen victim to the Kuomintang. In her novel 'Green Island,' Shawna Yang Ryan explores Taiwan under authoritarian rule 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He also profiles new dissidents campaigning for open societies. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Although apolitical as a poet, she openly supported persecuted writers like Boris Pasternak and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and political dissidents like Andrei D. Sakharov. Bella Akhmadulina, Bold Voice in Russian Poetry, Dies at 73 2010-12-01T05:58:00Z Still, he hopes that even those whose dissident credentials are less than sterling might learn a thing or two about democracy by attending his meetings. A Chinese Revolutionary, Reinventing Himself in American Exile 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Satter interviewed the group but was later told by trusted sources that the “dissidents” were actually undercover KGB agents. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Bul was born in 1964 in a remote South Korean village where her dissident parents were in hiding from the oppressive government. Artist of the week 97: Lee Bul 2010-07-21T15:15:00Z Perhaps Democratic dissidents will start their own counterrevolution over orange wine and sardine sourdough bread at Tail Up Goat. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z If passers-by on a busy bridge in central Berlin on a recent summer afternoon recognized East Germany’s most famous songwriter, poet and dissident, they did not show it. Germany Celebrates a Singer Who United East and West 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z That really happened: in the 1970s, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella on London's Waterloo Bridge. An intelligence expert's view on The Americans 2013-06-16T18:00:04Z Working with various aid networks, the Sharps rescued an estimated 125 people — Jews, political dissidents and others under threat as fascist armies spread across Europe. They risked their lives to rescue scores of people from the Nazis. Few knew their story until now. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Since the 1980s, as he tells it, the United States has repeatedly fallen for the charm offensives of foreign actors — insurgent groups, protest movements, dissidents — who con Washington into reckless action. New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry": Say the words "political dissident," and you tend to think of a deadly earnest character. May 19 at SIFF: 'Eden,' 'Ai Weiwei,' 3 Minute Masterpieces 2012-05-18T18:19:04Z He’s a young, intelligent dissident who finds solace in bed-hopping, and who surprises himself by falling in love. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z As well as being an outspoken dissident, Ai is one of the world's most celebrated contemporary artists. Ai Weiwei exhibits in former chapel 2014-04-17T10:35:17Z Decades later, Choy and the filmmakers meet with those long-exiled dissidents again to tenderly and thoughtfully consider their sacrifice and unfinished battles for freedom. 10 movies you’ll want to see from the Sundance Film Festival 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z When they lived in Leeds for a time, a dissident student leader and refugee from Pinochet's Chile had the spare room – "one of my first experiences of what political courage might mean," David suggests. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z Director Wang Bing's entry is a documentary-like project set in the late 1950s, when China's communist government condemned to forced labor thousands of citizens who were considered dissidents for a variety of reasons. Chinese film set in grim '50s showing in Venice 2010-09-06T18:46:00Z Then there is the change he would have made to “Trace” given a slightly different timeline — a reminder that any artwork about political dissidents is bound to be a work in progress. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The raves helped secure Mr. Sawka’s reputation among leading dissident Polish poster artists, whose work anticipated the Solidarity revolution of 1980. Jan Sawka, Polish Artist, Dies at 65 2012-08-28T07:23:01Z You were expected to be a dissident, not an existentialist. What Israel Meant to Amos Oz 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z The holiday commemorates the foiling of assassination attempt in 1605 on King James I by Fawkes, a Catholic dissident, and 12 of his co-conspirators. Noted: In Brooklyn Fire Pits Are All the Rage 2013-12-12T00:52:57Z Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia and became closely involved with the dissident movement there, as well as travelling to the Soviet Union in the 80s with Amnesty, whose value as an organisation he calls "inestimable". The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z “To paint over a dissident republican slogan is a very, very brave thing to do,” McGee said. In ‘Derry Girls,’ the Lighter Side of Life in a Conflict Zone 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z “Xiaobo has gone. It would be easier to die than to live,” she said in a phone conversation, in 2018, with Liao Yiwu, a dissident friend and poet living in exile in Berlin. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z He was already known to the communist authorities as a dissident cultural critic, but now his books were banned and he was forbidden to teach. June Fourth Elegies by Liu Xiaobo – review 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z Walesa had earlier lost his job because of his dissident activities, leaving his family in poverty. Poland's Walesa to pay last respects to foe Jaruzelski 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z And under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the Chinese dissident movement has been starved of oxygen. Eyewitnesses to America’s Greatest International Competitor 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z A week later, dissident poet Youssef Belkhdim was convicted of attacking police - a charge he denies - at a sit-in he organized in support of Belghouat and sentenced to two years in prison. Morocco hosts world's artists, imprisons its own 2012-05-26T09:31:03Z And at last fall’s Frankfurt Book Fair, a diplomatic struggle emerged over the fair’s invitation to two dissident Chinese writers to speak at its official program honoring China. 2010-01-09T03:35:00Z L.A. is awash in art and music and opera this week — featuring Chinese dissidents, roving aliens and feral little girls. Essential Art & Culture: The L.A. Phil at 100, Plácido's L.A. decades, getting funny with Shakespeare 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z China’s dissident and intellectual communities were, and remain, largely male. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Currently, there are four different types of media in Cuba: the dissident, the independent media on the island, the official state media and the foreign bureaus. The next frontier in Cuba: American press is seeping into the country, shaking up nation’s decades-long battle with free expression 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Yet it would be a mistake to assume that either Ustvolskaya or her music became inherently dissident. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z The Russian dissident Kira Yarmysh’s first novel, “The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3,” verges on becoming an insanity trip. Conversations With Friends, in a Russian Jail Cell 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z So I demanded the right to read it and make up my own mind, while she claimed that those dissidents did not have good intentions. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Ai became a symbol for China's crackdown on artists and dissidents when his disappearance and secret detention after battling Chinese authorities sparked an international outcry. Another side of Ai Weiwei shown in Sundance film 2012-01-23T02:52:07Z This little-known parallel internet is a natural home for an uncensored drugs marketplace, as it is for whistleblower websites and political dissidents who also rely on its powers of obfuscation. Dark net markets: the eBay of drug dealing 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z He became more critical of the government in recent years, as occasional flare-ups in dissident activity were met with official repression. Pablo Milanés, Troubadour of the Cuban Revolution, Dies at 79 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The Chinese dissident artist spoke while inaugurating an exhibit in the Swiss city of Lausanne that includes some of his political works symbolizing repression. Ai Wei-Wei critical of China at opening of Swiss exhibit 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s intelligent, because here Janne is a public body, a civilian and a dissident. My streaming gem: why you should watch All Is Well 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z The curators were convicted for their 2007 exhibit entitled "Forbidden Art" at the Sakharov Museum, a human rights center named after celebrated dissident physicist and Nobel peace prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned 2010-07-12T14:44:00Z Ai Weiwei is many things — a restless artist in all media, China’s most prominent dissident, and a compulsive Instagrammer — but he’s a New Yorker, too. Ai Weiwei, Once and Future New Yorker, Barnstorms Through the Boroughs 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z These dissidents frequently say their future is not in another part of the world but in a different Cuba. Through posters, a dialogue about Cuba's future 2013-05-05T19:58:08Z He advises readers to “secede culturally from the mainstream” and adopt a “hands-on localism” in politics, inspired by former Czech dissident Vaclav Havel and others who defied Eastern Bloc communism. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Cuba describes political dissidents as mercenaries and traitors in the pay of Washington. Singer Pablo Milanes urges more freedom in Cuba 2011-08-14T15:09:37Z In 2010, he publicly backed a dissident hunger striker who was demanding the release of political prisoners. Cuban singer Milanes blasts attacks on dissidents 2011-08-31T00:31:05Z Many of those dissidents were among the thousands of Argentines who didn’t just disappear but were disappeared — taken by security officers and never seen by their families again. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z In later life, two pieces “symbolically claimed a public space for a dissident body and nonconformist corporeality.” Review: ‘Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia’ 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z He was not a dissident, and his brand of light comedy seemed somehow un-Russian, lacking in gravitas. Eldar Ryazanov, Russian Film Director Known for His Satire, Dies at 88 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Alison Klayman's sharp-eyed documentary conveys the Chinese dissident artist's antic wit, giving vivid examples of his highly conceptual yet visually striking art. 14 top entertainment picks for the week beginning Aug. 5-11, 2012 2012-08-01T21:20:05Z Bullough crosses Russia in search of people and places connected to the dissident priest. The Last Man in Russia, and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough – review 2013-04-13T13:30:01Z More recently you have been the leading American booster of the Belarus Free Theater, a dissident company working under unimaginably repressive circumstances in that former Soviet republic. Ben Brantley on Shutting the Stage Door Behind Him 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In 2016, a United Nations report accused Eritrea of “crimes against humanity,” citing the imprisonment and torture of dissidents. In Eritrea, a Diver’s Dreamscape 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Two days later, on April 3, the artist Ai Weiwei, a relentless critic of China's one-party state, was taken into police custody, the latest name on a growing list of disappearances and arrests of dissidents. Art: 'The Age of Enlightenment' Sweeps Into China 2011-04-18T13:57:28Z Trump has also offered to meet with Thailand's prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, a junta head who is responsible for jailing dissidents after he took power through a coup. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Sawka studied art, printmaking and architecture during a period of political ferment throughout Eastern Europe, including widespread student protests throughout Poland in 1968 that set off a brutal government crackdown on dissidents. Jan Sawka, Polish Artist, Dies at 65 2012-08-28T07:23:01Z She’s been clowning since childhood, her survival strategy as the only girl among four siblings and as a bright child packed away to boarding schools that didn’t always appreciate her intellect or dissident views. We Need to Talk about Tilda Swinton 2011-12-08T15:14:32Z The women, who seek march weekly, are appealing for more political freedoms and the release of remaining dissident prisoners there. Cuban singer Milanes blasts attacks on dissidents 2011-08-31T00:31:05Z Ben Gonio as the dissident Chinese writer Wu and Diana Huey as his devoted wife, Fan, get the most fleshed-out back stories, and their voices gleam in the ballad, "Love is Where You Are." Asylum-seekers' tales in 'Take Me America' 2011-09-28T21:18:04Z When Nobel judges gave the peace prize to another writer – jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo – two years ago, Mo said he did not know much about the case and did not want to discuss it. Mo Yan's Nobel prize for literature sparks celebration in China 2012-10-11T18:33:56Z This year the festival will continue the debate about the position of the artist in society with the international premiere of a documentary about dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Arab Spring, Fukushima star at hard-hitting Berlinale 2012-01-27T17:08:18Z At that very moment, my wife, Susan, was in Moscow with a delegation from Human Rights Watch, where she worked, meeting with prominent dissidents who were under the surveillance of the K.G.B. Editing Donald Trump 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Chinese courts are strictly controlled by the ruling communist party and rarely accept lawsuits filed by dissidents or their relatives. Ai Weiwei's lawyer missing as artist is warned away from tax hearing 2012-06-20T04:27:00Z The reference to arrests and torture of political dissidents by Mubarak's police is clear. Film shows Egypt's "Winter of Discontent" spark hope 2012-08-13T13:33:17Z The Cuban government, which usually does not comment on police activity like the detention of dissidents, did not respond to a request for comment. Imprisonment of Cuban 'art-ivist' sparks charges of censorship 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z In time, these dissidents would be nicknamed "Copperheads," after the venomous snake. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z And it’s not just women – members of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood and other political dissidents are being targeted, as well as run-of-the-mill arrestees, students and even children in juvenile detention. Is the Egyptian state using sexual torture against women? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z That’s different than during the Cold War, when the number of people in the United States from the Soviet Union was smaller and many had come as ideological dissidents. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Before he scuttled into the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid facing sexual molestation charges, Assange handed secret police forces from Ethiopia to Belarus the names of dissidents who had spoken to the US State Department. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z But he is far better known as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, free speech advocate, courageous dissident against Soviet repression, and tireless opponent of human rights violations everywhere. Eight areligious scientists who changed the world 2012-08-21T13:40:00Z They were not "dissidents", just two people who put their love first. Just Send Me Word by Orlando Figes – review 2012-05-30T07:00:02Z Then there were the few but vocal dissidents in the crowd claiming the show was too simplistic, too idealistic and too liberal. 10 year time capsule: "West Wing" and the furies 2011-05-17T20:01:00Z Hong Kong’s most prominent dissident, Joshua Wong, weighed in, criticizing Beijing for “provoking groundless rage and division.” Korean boy band BTS faces uproar in China over war comments 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z On October 2nd, Jamal Khashoggi, an outspoken Saudi Arabian dissident and a Washington Post columnist, was brutally murdered by the Saudi government. Sunday Reading: The Khashoggi Affair 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z “In our understanding, dissidents were people who pronounced they knew better than the authorities how things should be, how to rule the country,” Yefimov told me. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Those crimes included torture, mass incarceration and the deportation of ethnic groups from their ancestral homelands, as well as a policy-driven famine that killed millions and the executions of dissidents in the hundreds of thousands. Jerrold Schechter, Who Procured Khrushchev’s Memoirs, Dies at 90 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Like many dissidents, Papanek is stronger on criticizing the status quo than on proposing alternatives. Design: Victor Papanek: An Early Champion of Good Sense 2011-05-15T17:30:06Z For “nonconformist” read “dissident,” and for “dissident” read “dangerous”: the term describes any art, including political, religious and Surrealist work, that did not hew to the narrow, state-sanctioned confines of Socialist Realism. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z The event also plans to honour the dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi with a career retrospective and a panel discussion on censorship in Iran. Coriolanus in Berlin 2011-01-19T20:20:07Z Where Soviet dissidents were once sent in exile, he goes to by choice, enduring temperatures of -30C. His only arms are a signal flare and dagger. Consolations of the Forest by Sylvain Tesson – review 2013-06-01T11:00:01Z Life continued for Father Dmitry and for the dissident movement, but no one forgot the priest's betrayal of himself and of the movement. The Last Man in Russia, and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough – review 2013-04-13T13:30:01Z I thought about imprisoned Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and the civil rights movement in America — Malcom X and George Jackson. Convicted drug dealers are political prisoners: I should know — I was one 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Frequently imprisoned in China for his dissident activities over the past 20 years, he is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in Beijing for subversion. Book of Liu Xiaobo poetry to be published in English 2010-12-13T15:50:00Z Since the start of the war in Ukraine, arts institutions have sought to distance themselves from Russian artists and writers — in some cases, even from dissidents. ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author Pulls New Book Set in Russia 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z And a book project in Germany about Chinese dissident writers, filmmakers and academics also received a grant. National Endowment for the Humanities Announces New Grants 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Putting himself in the shots not only added honesty but points to the need for activism, the dissident artist said. Ad-hoc iPhone shots inspired refugee epic, Chinese artist says 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet she was the rare Jewish dissident artist who could insult Stalin to his face and somehow stay out of Siberia. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Havel, a dissident who helped his nation shed Communism, was long associated with hearts. Huge art work honoring Havel on display in Prague 2012-02-10T17:12:08Z Named in honor of Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, the prize has been awarded by the European Parliament annually since 1988. Iranian lawyer and filmmaker win EU's Sakharov Prize 2012-10-26T15:29:22Z Many of these dissidents wrote about the lack of gratitude they received and complained about what one student derided as “mandated volunteerism.” Teaching civility: two daring assignments Disgusted by the waste of human life, a stream of dissidents dared to consider heretical alternatives like Deism. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Sadly, the same anonymity that enables dissidents in police states to blog or a gay teenager in the midwest to find friends also gives cowards the cover to vent their ugly views in public. The player: racism in online gaming 2010-10-13T21:00:00Z In American academic discourse, one might laud a dissident such as Brink as a “race traitor.” A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z He had long known about the dissident writers who worked there in secret and began to wonder if there existed a comparable visual-art underground. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z An influential group of dissident and nonconformist artists known as the Moscow Conceptualists set an example of such underground unity in the 1970s and ’80s. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z When Philip, Elizabeth, and Tuan have dinner with the dissident family, the father, who’s just arrived from the Soviet Union, tells appalling stories about Russian corruption and food shortages. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Or maybe he is a philosophical dissident in the manner of Herman Melville’s Bartleby, greeting each new assignment with a polite “I would prefer not to.” | 'The Art of Getting By': Allergic to Homework and Possibly Smitten 2011-06-16T23:10:19Z Her friends, scrappy artists with dissident connections, attract the attention of Chinese and American authorities, forcing blunt-speaking Ellie and others into hiding. Crime fiction from the world's hot spots, from Beijing to Sedalia, Mo. 2010-06-09T23:59:00Z “The family tribes were very important in the time of Communism and Charter 77” — the pro-democracy dissident movement begun in 1977. At the Prague Marathon, History Is a Spectator 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z "A prize to a Russian dissident, which is a likely choice given the many human rights problems in Russia today, would most certainly create tensions between Russia and an organization like the Council," she said. Change looms for Nobel Peace Prize as chairman risks coup 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s a nod from Mr. Bentley to country’s new wave of dissidents. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z Zhuang and his fellow dissident exiles hold fast to their principles. Hustling in Flushing: A Chinese Immigrant Couple Struggles to Decode Life in Queens 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The absence of hippies, yippies and other dissidents is part of what makes his series a thought-provoking time capsule.” Time Capsule of ’70s Los Angeles Beaches from Tod Papageorge 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z And in the late 1940s, droves of Eastern Europeans fled Stalinist oppression in the growing Soviet bloc — like the Soviet “show trials” which were designed to purge Hungary and other countries of dissidents. 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z In an open letter published Tuesday in Miami's El Nuevo Herald, Milanes said one may not agree with the dissident group, but he disapproves of how they've been treated at times by rowdy government supporters. Cuban singer Milanes blasts attacks on dissidents 2011-08-31T00:31:05Z He’s the dissident artist, at odds with his homeland; jailed for 81 days back in 2011 and now, for all practical purposes, living in exile in Berlin. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z In “3 Faces,” he is at once playing a role in a fiction and himself: a dissident filmmaker with a privileged, sympathetic view of women, which strengthens the movie’s autobiographical underpinning. ‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too) 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z After spending eight years in a Chinese prison for his dissident work, he escaped by swimming to Taiwan from a fishing boat. A Chinese Revolutionary, Reinventing Himself in American Exile 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The exhibit "Forbidden Art" at the Sakharov Museum, a human rights center named after celebrated dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, featured several paintings with images of Jesus Christ. Moscow curators face 3 years in prison 2010-07-07T12:28:00Z Sasha’s mildly dissident parents are seized by Stalin’s secret police and sent to the gulag. Delusion chronicle 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z He is the dissident chronicler of his nation. Reareading: Jacqueline Rose on Khirbet Khizeh 2011-03-12T00:06:57Z Matar, the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir about the kidnapping and imprisonment of his father, a Libyan dissident, here chronicles a month spent gazing at Sienese paintings — a source of solace and illumination. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Cuba considers dissidents to be mercenaries in the pay of the United States trying to subvert the government. Art frenzy takes over Havana as biennial kicks off 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z They also submitted more than 100 letters attesting to her good works from friends, artists and collectors including the Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, whom she once represented. The Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to Prison for Tax Fraud 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Macrae was among those who urged his fellow publishers to boycott the Moscow Book Fair in 1983 to protest the Soviet Union’s treatment of dissidents. John Macrae III, Eclectic Publisher and Rights Champion, Dies at 91 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Across the fictional island, political dissidents and their families are routinely disappeared and imprisoned. The Suicide Squad's grim portrait of real-life, US-Nazi collaboration 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z I recall a long and lengthy argument with my mother, which eventually turned into a shouting match, about a letter written by a group of Yugoslav dissident intellectuals demanding unfettered freedom of speech. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Locke, who once denounced the Quakers as mad, now insisted state policy toward such religious dissidents be one of acceptance. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Among the first was Mr. Ai, in 2001, before he was the dissident artist he would become. Art Collectors Show Their Chinese Prizes 2013-12-10T22:23:02Z Some seasoned Russia-watchers have grumbled about young women in colourful balaclavas receiving immeasurably more international attention than other persecuted dissidents. Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups 2012-12-20T18:35:44Z He seemed well aware that as a noted dissident, welcoming dissent about his own project was part of his role. Ai Weiwei, Once and Future New Yorker, Barnstorms Through the Boroughs 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, for example, decried the Guggenheim’s decision to withdraw its pieces. The year the art came down 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But she was not encouraged to discuss her parents' dissident status with outsiders. Sahar Delijani: 'I had to tell my family's story of the Iranian executions' 2013-07-06T06:45:00Z Even hardened human rights activists and dissidents view the changes of the past year as the country's most significant in the half-century since the military took power. US documentary pries lid off isolated Myanmar 2012-03-16T01:06:11Z A dissident perspective belongs to Ch’ayña, a Peruvian housekeeper whose grandchild, Atik, possesses the sorts of gifts that a school like Crystal Academy might actually help nurture. How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In the view of the government, this book is a veiled allegory championing the ideology of political dissidents. ‘Closet Land’ is courageous and uncomfortable, but also predictable 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Ai's detention provoked an outcry from many western governments about China's tightening grip on dissent that started in February, when dozens of human rights activists and dissidents were detained and arrested. Ai Weiwei speaks 2011-08-29T11:04:40Z Installation of large-scale Lego portraits of political dissidents. Around the world with Ai Weiwei: Where to get your fix of the artist's work 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Zoyd, the anti- Reagan dissident, is dependent on regular government disability cheques. Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Members of the security services, with cameras registering dissidents, outnumber the embedded television crews in their blast-resistant trucks. London in ruins 2012-07-14T15:00:00Z “The Dissident” ultimately questions why countries and companies continue to do business with a country that resorts to such methods, jailing and killing dissidents. Khashoggi doc, too explosive for streaming, debuts on-demand 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z With the Kremlin occupied by someone of true machiavellian stature, invading neighbouring countries, assassinating dissidents with arcane poisons, sapping the foundations of international democracy, Vladimir Putin has all boxes ticked on the malefactor’s charter. Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In a Cold War context, much was being made about the way the Soviets were stretching the boundaries of mental illness to label dissidents as mad in order to incarcerate and forcibly medicate them. Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis 2012-08-08T20:52:00Z Here again, one suspects that, in its time and place, this was not merely as moving as it remains, but also unusually courageous and dissident. The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z As the memory-haunted widows of "disappeared" dissidents scan the desert floor for the bones of their executed husbands and relatives, Guzmán eloquently weaves their obsessive quest into the film's universal context. 'Nostalgia for the Light': Looking at the cosmos ? and Chile's haunted past 2011-03-31T20:36:09Z But in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, Mr. Wu, visiting North America at the time, found himself branded a dissident. Wu Tianming, Film Director Who Reshaped Chinese Cinema, Dies at 74 2014-03-25T04:23:02Z In 1939, Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, were asked by leaders of their church to travel to Czechoslovakia, where they would help Jews, dissidents and others flee persecution by the Nazis. Review: ‘Defying the Nazis’: An American Couple on a Rescue Mission 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet the novel’s true subject is humankind’s need, in all times, in all places, to “live in truth,” as the Czech dissident Vaclav Havel put it. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Oliva, a prominent Cuban painter from Pinar del Río, was ostracized by provincial officials after he criticized harassment of dissidents four years ago. In Cuba, Artistic Freedom Remains an Open Question 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Time Warner board members this week unanimously approved a change to the company's bylaws to try to thwart dissident shareholders who might agitate for a sale to Fox. Murdoch's 21st Century Fox selling stakes in two satellite TV firms 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Strauss argued that individuals turn to esoteric messaging when they fear persecution; for example, it was particularly popular among dissidents in the Soviet Union. How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z She harbours some of the dissident fury that made them, and much of the controlling spirit that guarded against them. Asunder by Chloe Aridjis – review 2013-05-31T08:00:06Z Compatriots were welcomed but expected to believe, and dissidents like Roger Williams were banished. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z In his memoir, Mr. Patch said the recipients of Bedford’s services included the dissident Soviet writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of the late Soviet dictator. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies A current exhibit by Rudolf Sikora, a Slovak, tracks his evolution as a leader of Bratislava’s dissident art scene toward the end of the Communist era, when he expressed himself with mathematical symbols. Scene/Seen: A Slovakian Contemporary Art Museum Girds for Expansion 2011-08-19T13:45:30Z “It’s much harder to be a dissident on LinkedIn, or to spread awareness about autocracy,” Mr. Thompson said. Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z In “Lulu,” your story in this week’s issue, a young Chinese man watches his twin sister become increasingly involved in dissident activism—her actions seem to leave him at a loss. Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z That includes acts of violence and terrorism perpetrated by the Russian military, the Chechen government and native dissidents. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident, is known for his films, sculptures and photography. On Instagram, the Artist Ai Weiwei Focuses on Refugees 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Roy’s fall from darling to dissident was swift, and her landing rough. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The film is less a career survey than an admiring political portrait of a stubborn dissident playing a risky cat-and-mouse game with the government. Critic’s Notebook: Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2012-06-14T21:54:07Z “Perhaps the deep seated and silent assumption in the West,” he wrote, “remains that Muslims are simply not worthy of serious dissidents, do not deserve them and are ultimately incapable of producing them.” The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z In more than 600 sequenced photographs, the iconic Chinese artist and dissident provides an intimate glimpse — which China has refused to publish — of the country that went on to imprison him for his criticism. New & Noteworthy 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Crucially, the company’s dissident ethos extends to form as well as subject matter. Review: In This Eco-Thriller, the Animals May Be Having Their Revenge 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z And, she said, “he brought over the great Russian poets Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, and he worked with them to get Russian dissidents released from prison.” John Macrae III, Eclectic Publisher and Rights Champion, Dies at 91 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Though the junta has criminalized “affronts to decency,” jailing and torturing queer citizens alongside dissidents and guerrilla fighters, Romina is tired of delaying her life: “Why not resist. Also I will never love a man.” A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The Village Voice critic Andrew Sarris, speaking at an awards ceremony that the United States government denied Alea a visa to attend, hailed the director as a courageous dissident. Outside Cuba’s Revolution, Looking In 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z What unifies many of the characters in the film – the Americans, the dissidents and even members of the Republican Guard – is that they’re ordinary people at the mercy of the powerful and corrupt. Three Kings at 20: the war movie where anything was possible 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Havel’s subsequent role as a dissident led to intensely personalized one-act plays about the plight of the playwright’s alter ego, whom he called Ferdinand Vanek. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z One of the regime’s most morally destitute practices involved stealing the children of dissidents and giving them to families with ties to the dictatorship. Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Syjuco's novel follows the exploits of a young Filipino protagonist — also named Miguel Syjuco — who returns to the Philippines and the past he left behind to investigate the death of his dissident mentor, Crispin Salvador. Q&A: Filipino Author Miguel Syjuco 2010-05-11T06:00:00Z Mr. Topol was among the youngest signatories of Charter 77, a dissident document released in 1977 that called on Czechoslovakia’s Communist government to respect human rights. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z Do we really want to build tools to screen online content for copyright violations, only to discover that dictators use those very tools for spying on dissidents? Free Ride by Robert Levine ? review 2011-08-18T11:24:01Z This will no doubt be the only Weird Al book you’ll read with a quote by Vaclav Havel, the Czech writer and dissident who went on to become Czech president. Review | ‘Weird Al: Seriously’ gives a talented musician his due 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z From his camp in Bolivia, Wolf, an East German dissident turned political fugitive, runs an operation called the Sunlight Project, whose mission is to air the world’s dirty laundry. Review: Jonathan Franzen's Purity Examines Wealth and Identity 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z A friend periodically brought over a smartphone, which was pinging with text messages and calls for Liu from well-wishers in the dissident diaspora, many of them longtime supporters of her husband. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Citron said there were no financial shenanigans, and that the club’s reputation had been hurt by bitter dissidents who spread false rumors about the management of the place. At the Friars Club, When the Laughter Stopped 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Dangerous political dissidents were executed while their organs created a comfortable revenue stream for hospitals and surgeons, and presumably many important Chinese officials received organs.” Books of The Times: Need a Kidney? A Skull? Just Bring Cash 2011-06-16T21:02:31Z Board members unanimously agreed to prevent dissident shareholders from convening a special meeting to try to install board members who are more inclined to accept a deal. Fox offer for Time Warner could bring out rival suitors 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z In fact, brutal measures wielded against dissidents only provoked increasingly extreme forms of dissent. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z He was an outspoken political dissident against the military regime in his native Nigeria. Get-up-and-dance ‘Fela!’ coming to Seattle May 28-June 2 2013-05-22T23:12:41Z When there are saints, there is no room for dissidents.” Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z Communist authorities banned him from performing in East Germany in 1977 after he expressed support for a dissident folk singer and he asked to leave soon after. Actor Manfred Krug, a star in East and West Germany, dies aged 79 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z And theater since time immemorial has studied autocrats, and strong and violent authority is a productive, dramatic force against which to set any kind of dissident opinion. What It’s Like to Play Putin in ‘Patriots’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z I remember a wonderful hunchback dissident in Leningrad with a circle of followers about him, but I couldn’t possibly write about him, as he was too identifiable. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z “Collaborators,” still Hodge’s only play, is a dark comedy about Stalin’s relationship with a dissident playwright. British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z A century of rebellions, from the Decembrist uprising in 1825 to the revolution of 1905, ensured that a steady supply of political dissidents were carted across the Urals by a progressively more paranoid state. Prison without a roof 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Twitter has been used by Iranian dissidents; text messaging and social networking Web sites have been used to help coordinate humanitarian aid in Haiti; YouTube has been used by professors to teach math and chemistry. Arts & Leisure Preview: Reading and the Web: Texts Without Context 2010-03-17T23:19:00Z The project, a collection of 176 portraits of dissidents, political prisoners and activists, was first seen in 2014 as part of a huge exhibition the artist created on Alcatraz Island in California. Review | Ai Weiwei’s new show at the Hirshshorn is self-satisfied, but not satisfying 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z After filing a police report in Estonia, he arrived late to an apartment, expecting to interview local dissidents. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Mynhardt embodies the words that Johnny Clegg, the valiant dissident of South African popular music, sang during the late-nineteen-eighties official state of emergency: “We are the prisoners of the prisoners we have taken.” A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z They’re posing as Tuan’s parents while he, in turn, pretends to be a high-school student; his goal is to befriend the son of a Russian dissident whose family has just arrived in America. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z That’s partly because it concerns a dissident who, with modest, obstinate anger, pushes back against totalitarianism, but also because Mr. Petzold refuses movie clichés as strongly as he does political orthodoxy. Movie Review: ‘Barbara,’ Directed by Christian Petzold 2012-12-20T21:52:52Z Going to Mexico or imprisoning dissidents will not make them complete. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z Even before it officially became our national anthem, dissidents were using the “Banner” to point out incongruities between the song’s claims and America’s reality. Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The academic Robert Aldrich wrote that in the 1930s Corsican dissidents criticized Paris for failing to develop the island’s infrastructure and educational system, giving it “less favorable treatment than many a colony.” Into Corsica, From Rustic Villages to Stony Cliffs 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Conservatives oppose change, criticizing Cuba's continued one-party political system and repression of dissidents. Authors see chance for breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z This month the Chinese government’s claims that one such dissident, Li Wangyang, committed suicide while under police surveillance in a hospital were met with widespread skepticism and demonstrations in Hong Kong. Inside the Documentary ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry’ 2012-07-20T21:04:05Z Putting himself in the shots not only added honesty but points to the need for activism, the dissident artist said. Ad-hoc iPhone shots inspired refugee epic, Chinese artist says 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Ming themes and styles, whatever their dissident implications, smoothly entered the Qing mainstream. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z He also acts like a Soviet-era potentate, repressing dissidents, jailing rivals and casting the United States as a contemptible enemy. On ‘The Americans’ and Other Shows, Russian Spies Invade 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It's full of camerabatics, wry humor and the brutality of Argentine politics in the years when Isabel Peron's unstable government gave way to the dictatorship of el Processo, with its Dirty War against dissidents. Oscar's Big Secret: Love and Death in Argentina 2010-04-25T02:35:00Z Mr. Topol first performed in 1978, when he was 13, at a gathering of dissidents at the country retreat of the playwright and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z Here also are the city of culture offices, twice the target for dissident republicans. Derry has built bridges – but its industry won't come back 2013-06-21T10:00:49Z The letter’s implication was that the play had softened Mr. Robeson’s positions as a political dissident, a black activist and an avowed socialist. Phillip Hayes Dean, the Playwright of Divisive ‘Paul Robeson,’ Dies at 83 2014-04-23T03:06:19Z That internal struggle has led Mr. Cole, 32, a mainstream rap dissident who has gone platinum on each of his albums, to the most fruitful work of his career. J. Cole, the Platinum Rap Dissident, Steps Back From the Spotlight 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z One dissident writer, talking about the interrogation he once underwent in Prague, comments, “Did they really believe sleep deprivation would crack a father with a newborn?” Books of The Times: Molly Antopol Looks to Old World in ‘UnAmericans’ 2014-03-18T19:56:45Z And it wasn’t until Khashoggi’s later years, the film argues, that he personified the dissident he is known as today. Two New Movies Share a Clear Message: Don’t Forget Jamal Khashoggi 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Havel was a dissident playwright who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled four decades of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia before becoming the Czech Republic's first president. Czechs remember late president Vaclav Havel 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z O.K., it wasn’t actually Havel, the Czech playwright who went from dissident to president and died in 2011 at 75. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z In this week’s issue, Sam Tanenhaus, a former editor of the Book Review, revisits Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” in an essay about three books by dissident Russians. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z A year after his birth in Paris in 1848, his father, a dissident writer fleeing Napoleon III’s wrath, moved the family to South America. We’re Still Talking About Gauguin 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He was presumably referring to the renewed significance of the play – presciently written in 1958, but shelved until 1980 – given subsequent revelations regarding the political abuse of psychiatry to silence dissidents in the Soviet Union. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z There is a trail of admiring correspondence with Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright and president of the Czech Republic, who helped spread the subversive gospel of Reed’s group the Velvet Underground in the Soviet days. Lou Reed Archives Head to New York Public Library 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Andrzej Wajda, who died this week at age 90, was Poland’s greatest filmmaker, as well as a union activist, a supporter of dissidents and for a time a senator, but he was something more. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z These attracted the attention of key dissidents, drawn by Father Dmitry's courage, his message and also by his considerable oratorical skills. The Last Man in Russia, and the Struggle to Save a Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough – review 2013-04-13T13:30:01Z Can you tell a dissident cultural history of Britain in which radical and anti-monarchist artists subverted the royalist aesthetic establishment? Is it possible to like royalty and be a republican? 2011-01-18T15:51:14Z One thing is for sure – the dissidents are not going to shut up shop. Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z In one of Havel’s most famous essays, “Politics and Conscience,” from 1984, he asserted that dissidents like him, with their “flawed efforts” for freedom, were engaged in a universally necessary endeavor. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z This is a not a fun recommendation, but go to Hohenschönhausen prison, where the East German secret police interrogated dissidents, many of them writers. Read Your Way Through Berlin 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z More than 50 years ago, a bunch of dissident Oxbridge-educated academic historians changed the way the British saw culture. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z The blocking of information and the monitoring of dissidents helps suppress genuine democratic reform. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z In the wake of World War II, the dissident actor and singer Paul Robeson saw deep parallels between the plight of Jews and African Americans and loved to perform Dvorak’s setting of the psalm. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z There’s also a nearby group of refugee dissidents living in the woods, who have fled the city to live together as loners. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Writers are being jailed, dissident voices silenced and books banned. Celebrating Literature That ‘Brings the World Close’ 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z In one, the leader of the Burmese military scatters flowers at Mohandas Gandhi’s cremation site; in the other, a dissident Burmese artist carries a painting of Gandhi in an Indian political march. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z A dissident comes to work at the Smile Mart, this novel’s bemusement park. ‘Convenience Store Woman’ Casts a Fluorescent Spell 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Triska emigrated in 1977 after signing a human rights manifesto inspired by his close friend Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who later became president of the Czech Republic. Jan Triska, Czech-American Actor Seen in ‘Ragtime,’ Dies at 80 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z When Sontag wrote that Kiš's work "preserves the honour of literature", she meant that he had defended literature by refusing to play the roles bestowed on him, the dissident or Yugoslav or Jewish writer. The Lute and the Scars by Danilo Kis – review 2012-12-14T08:59:01Z “The Quran Speaks,” by Bahis Sedq: a hugely important book by a scholar of Islam who is, to my mind, the most sophisticated of all the dissidents in the Muslim world. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z He’s from North Vietnam, hates America, and suggests that Philip and Elizabeth shoot the dissident in the head. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Pavel Landovsky, a prominent Czech actor who became a noted dissident, working with the playwright and future Czechoslovak president Vaclav Havel, died on Friday. Pavel Landovsky, Czech Actor and Dissident, Dies at 78 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z For one thing, she saw herself as more provocateur than dissident: though disenchanted with its specific manifestations, she retained an essential belief in the socialist cause. Vera Chytilova Dies at 85; Made Daring Czech Films 2014-03-23T02:16:56Z Go back to the czars, go back to Lenin and Stalin, you have two options with dissidents. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Christopher Chen’s “Caught” centers on a dissident Chinese artist who, during gallery retrospective of his work, tells patrons about his ordeal in a Chinese detention center. ArtsBeat: Nine Playwrights to Attend Sundance Theater Lab 2014-04-24T15:06:03Z That shared value — of communal participation and collective identity — is what defines the Wobblies and the Latter-day Saints as dissident formations in the landscape of the West. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The piece follows a growing international outcry over the artist's disappearance, with the US, Britain and the EU criticising China's growing crackdown on dissidents and activists. China media condemn 'unruly' Ai Weiwei 2011-04-06T08:42:05Z The Ladies in White formed in 2003, following the arrest of 75 dissidents, many of whom have since been freed and left communist Cuba. Cuban singer Milanes blasts attacks on dissidents 2011-08-31T00:31:05Z What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government? Irreverent Cuban movie promises zombie revolution 2010-09-04T18:16:00Z He quotes the Iraqi dissident and secular leftist Kanan Makiya recalling how events next door in Tehran took him and his comrades by surprise. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z The dissidents credit their questioning for getting the company to raise its offer by $6 million. At Art Students League, Air Rights and Airing Grievances 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z On the other hand, they make the life of the creative dissident truly adventurous, stimulating a defiant heroism that western writers in the late Soviet era found inspiring. The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z She used the DNC fundraiser to speak with Obama about Cuba’s Ladies in White, relatives of jailed dissidents who were arrested for championing human rights. Gloria Estefan left Cuba as a young child, but the island defines her, and her music 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z U.S. officials angered Castro by putting up a Christmas display that included a large “75” — a reference to the number of dissidents arrested in an early 2000s crackdown. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z China’s dissident artist Ai Weiwei says police have stopped him leaving his studio in the capital Bejing to attend a court hearing regarding his challenge to a massive $2.4 million tax bill. Is Fidel Castro doing yoga? 2012-06-21T14:39:00Z Mr. Topol came to see that the efforts of the state to fragment, isolate and crush dissidents had an unintended effect, that by driving them underground the authorities actually strengthened their solidarity. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z Cuban state media, which rarely mention dissident groups except to accuse the dissidents of being "mercenaries" hired by Washington, have not reported any arrests, and the accounts could not be independently confirmed. Cuban singer Milanes blasts attacks on dissidents 2011-08-31T00:31:05Z Le Carré is often described as an outsider, a dissident, or dismissed by the minions of high culture as a genre novelist. Profile: John le Carr? 2011-03-30T11:54:55Z Earlier this month the junta enacted an emergency law against perceived dissidents to expand its crackdown, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Burkina Faso authorities say 70 people, mostly children and elderly, slain in village massacre 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z China’s 1.4 billion people are not represented by the estimated 98 million members of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, according to pro-democracy Chinese dissidents. China state-controlled outlets reveal Xi Jinping’s goals for APEC summit, Biden meeting 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Schwarzenberg was born into a prestigious Czech family and became a senior aide to his friend Vaclav Havel after the former dissident won the country's first free election in 1990. 'True European': Former top Czech diplomat Schwarzenberg dies 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Schwarzenberg was born into a prestigious Czech family and became a top aide to his friend Vaclav Havel after the former dissident won the country's first free election in 1990. Former top Czech diplomat Schwarzenberg dies aged 85 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z A source close to the home secretary told BBC News NI that the comment was a reference to the activities of "dissident republicans". Suella Braverman: Home secretary criticised for NI 'hate marches' remark 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z A source close to the home secretary told the BBC the comment was a reference to the activities of "dissident republicans". London Gaza rally: Braverman accuses Met of bias over Gaza marches 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z These three insurgent groups have discreetly given sanctuary, military training and some weapons to dissidents from other parts of Myanmar. A turning point in Myanmar as army suffers big losses 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z “All artists in North Korea are slaves to the Party,” said Song Byeok, a dissident artist who painted propaganda posters in North Korea until he fled to the South two decades ago. North Korean art sells in China despite UN sanctions over nuclear program 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The mounting number of flights comes at a strategic moment for Ortega’s government, said Enrique Martínez, a spokesperson for the dissident group Platform for Democratic Unity. Nicaragua is ‘weaponizing’ US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z State Department reports have previously raised concerns over treatment of religious minorities, journalists and dissidents in India. US monitoring India next steps after court declines to legalize same-sex marriage 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z The annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought recognises human rights activists and dissidents. Mahsa Amini awarded EU's Sakharov human rights prize 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z Besides Thessaly, New Democracy lost four other regional contests to conservative dissidents, only one of whom was the incumbent. Greece’s ruling conservatives suffer setbacks in regional, municipal elections 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z Last year, he says, his cellphone was targeted with Pegasus, software the Mexican government has used to spy on journalists, human rights activists, and dissidents. This Mexican biologist is fighting to preserve his country’s biodiversity—and his own legacy 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Martínez, at the Nicaraguan dissident group, said Ortega’s government views migration as a “business” injecting money into the country. Nicaragua is ‘weaponizing’ US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z House of Representatives will try to unite around a new speaker to lead their fractious and narrow majority on Wednesday, a week after a small group of dissidents ousted Kevin McCarthy. US House Republicans seek to unite around a new speaker 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z The rights group said Cuba and Burundi have also committed systematic human rights violations, including harassment, arbitrary detention, and torture of dissidents, and don’t belong on the council. Russia faces a tough fight to regain its seat in the UN’s top human rights body 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z Dan Smith, head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute think tank, said that while the prize could help ease pressure on Iranian dissidents, it would be unlikely to lead to her release. Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z But then we’ve come to expect that from a scandal-ridden organization that took its last two World Cups to Russia and Qatar, two places where human rights — and political dissidents — are not tolerated. Commentary: As Russia continues to kill and maim in Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA look the other way 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Despite being targeted by the Russian authorities, many Ukrainian journalists and Russian dissidents have expressed mistrust of Ovsyannikova, pointing to her earlier career for the Russian state's media. Marina Ovsyannikova: Anti-war Russian journalist sentenced in absentia 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z More critically, McCarthy agreed that a sole dissident could trigger a vote on his removal, and then spent the entirety of his speakership with that sword hanging precariously overhead. Column: McCarthy's fall was sudden, but a long time coming 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z When the judge asked the Belarusian why he hadn't refused to follow orders, Mr Garavsky said he would have joined the dead dissidents in the ditch. Yury Garavsky: Swiss trial acquits man who admitted abducting Belarus politicians 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The imprisoned Navalny's chances are lessened because Russian dissidents won last year and the year before. Nobel Peace Prize: Indigenous, women or green activists could win 2023 award 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Other dangers facing U.S. travelers include “pervasive technical surveillance, physical attacks and prosecution of journalists, lawyers, writers, bloggers, dissidents, petitioners, and others as well as their family members.” Nuclear targeting debate: Cities or militaries? 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Prison authorities have regularly sent imprisoned dissidents to such cells in recent months over alleged minor infractions, a practice that is widely considered designed to put additional pressure on Kremlin critics behind bars. Jailed Kremlin critic transferred to a prison in Siberia, placed in ‘punishment cell,’ lawyer says 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Surrender to dissidents and allow a small group of extremists to debilitate his office. Column: McCarthy's fall was sudden, but a long time coming 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Chen said he is aware of the risks, but preferred Taiwan over escaping to Thailand or Laos, other countries that Chinese dissidents often flee to. A Chinese dissident in transit at a Taiwan airport pleads for help in seeking asylum 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Provisions in an eventual accord barring extradition abroad and protecting economic programs meant to provide jobs for former rebels must be implemented to discourage dissidents, Avila added. Exclusive: At least 40% of Colombia's ELN rebels seen rejecting peace deal-security sources 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z “Men with metal batons viciously attacked a dissident and his wife in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on September 12, 2023,” Human Rights Watch noted in a Tuesday statement. A leader of Cambodia’s main opposition party jailed for 18 months for bouncing checks 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z In June 1984, the Indian military stormed the holiest site for Sikhs, to displace a preacher and dissident occupying the temple's complex in the city of Amritsar. Why are some Sikhs calling for a separate homeland in India? 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The fight against disinformation is now being used in some countries as a fig leaf to jail dissidents and punish their enemies. "On Disinformation" and why we can't "expect journalists to save us" 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Beijing has stepped up its pursuit of dissidents and vulnerable groups overseas, the statement read, with those arrested often disappearing for months or years. Laos deports human rights lawyer who was fleeing state pressure back to China 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z And dozens, at least, of the 13,000 members who did back the accord later rejected it, founding a second major dissident group. Exclusive: At least 40% of Colombia's ELN rebels seen rejecting peace deal-security sources 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Officials fear the information has been obtained by Irish Republican Army dissidents who continue to mount occasional attacks on police 25 years after Northern Ireland’s peace accord. A second major British police force suffers a cyberattack in less than a month 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The sisters, daughters of dissidents, were born a year apart in the former Soviet Union and moved with their family as young girls to Israel. US should use its influence to help win the freedom of a scholar missing in Iraq, her sister says 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z There's even a video in which an American bigot compares being criticized online to the plight of Soviet dissidents thrown in a gulag. PragerU's Confederate propaganda isn't just misleading — it props up modern insurrectionists 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z In a recent case in Thailand, bomb threats were called in under the names of a Chinese dissident and his mother. Laos deports human rights lawyer who was fleeing state pressure back to China 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z "I don't think there will be large dissident groups," Avila said. Exclusive: At least 40% of Colombia's ELN rebels seen rejecting peace deal-security sources 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Iranian officials have said that, if the deadline was missed, they could resume attacks against dissident groups inside Iraqi Kurdistan that Tehran had regularly undertaken until the end of last year. Iraq starts relocating Iranian Kurdish fighters from Iran border - Iraq foreign minister 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Sept. 24 - After accusing armed dissidents of involvement in the unrest, the elite Revolutionary Guards carry out the first of several attacks on Iranian militant opposition bases in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Events in Iran since Mahsa Amini's death in custody 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Pegasus is an expensive tool typically used to target dissidents, journalists and political opponents, so ordinary users likely have little to fear. Update your iPhone: Apple just pushed out a significant security update 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr Byrne later said the information was in the hands of dissident republicans who could use the list to generate "fear and uncertainty". PSNI crisis: Policing Board meets to discuss chief constable role 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr Byrne later said the information was in the hands of dissident republicans, who could use the list to generate "fear and uncertainty". Simon Byrne: Ex-PSNI chief 'will not be paid for contract remainder' 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Police said dissident Irish republicans claimed to be in possession of information about police officers following the incident. Northern Ireland police chief resigns after controversies including huge data breach 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Police said that dissident republicans claimed to be in possession of information about police officers following the incident. Northern Ireland police chief resigns after controversies including huge data breach 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z The dangers they face was highlighted by the recent attempted murder of DCI John Caldwell by dissident republicans in Omagh. Simon Byrne: What went wrong for the PSNI's chief constable? 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z During Argentina’s bloody dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, military officials carried out the systematic theft of babies from political dissidents who were detained or often executed and disposed of without a trace. AI project imagines adult faces of children who disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Police have confirmed the list is in the hands of dissident republicans, amongst others. PSNI data breach: Two men arrested under the Terrorism Act 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z In an advance that could benefit spies and dissidents alike, computer scientists have developed a way to communicate confidential information so discreetly that an adversary couldn't even know secrets were being shared. AI Could Smuggle Secret Messages in Memes 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years after a peace agreement largely ended the violence, many police officers continue to shield their identities because of continuing threats from dissident members of the republican and unionist communities. Northern Ireland police chief resigns after controversies including huge data breach 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Selling“to a company with such a devastating reputation in the industry runs against everything we believe in,” the dissident family members wrote. Owners of Scranton Times-Tribune, 3 other Pennsylvania dailies sell to publishing giant 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z The term ‘lawfare’ is understood as the use of multiple prosecutions and lawsuits to intimidate, silence or discredit dissidents or opponents. Guatemala’s president-elect faces legal challenges that seek to weaken him. Here’s what’s happening 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z The arrests were widely seen as part of a crackdown on dissidents launched by the Hong Kong government following the massive protests. Hong Kong police arrest 2 men accused of foreign collusion over links with protest fund 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Since coming to power in 2013, el-Sissi’s government has detained thousands of suspected supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group banned as a terrorist organization, and also secular activists and dissidents. Coalition of Egyptian parties criticize government in rare act of public dissent 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Iran has periodically launched strikes targeting members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iran, or KDPI, and other Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region near the border with Iran. Tehran and Baghdad reach a deal to disarm and relocate Iranian dissident groups based in north Iraq 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The shutdown of Chan’s group showed that the crackdown on dissidents has been expanding to cultural activities. A Hong Kong language group shuts down after an essay alleged to have breached security law 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The shutdown of Chan’s group showed that the crackdown on dissident has been expanding to cultural activities. A Hong Kong language group shuts down after an essay alleged to have breached security law 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z But this is perhaps one of the more extreme escape attempts and one which dissidents may point to as an example of the lengths they have to go to to leave the country. 'Chinese activist Kwon Pyong' fled to South Korea on jet ski 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Police then confirmed the list is in the hands of dissident republicans, among others. PSNI data breach: Chief Constable Simon Byrne faces more questions 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The phone allegedly had screenshots of sections with officers names, including one who was previously targeted in a dissident bomb attack. PSNI data breach: Man in court on terrorism-related charges 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z The leak is hugely sensitive in Northern Ireland, where officers are still sporadically targeted by dissident groups in bomb and gun attacks, despite a 1998 peace deal largely ending three decades of sectarian violence. Northern Irish police make another arrest after data breach 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Chief Constable Simon Byrne said the information was now in the hands of dissident republicans. PSNI data breach: Donaldson says police should not be left leaderless 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed by the device planted by the dissident republican Real IRA. Omagh bomb: A phone call between friends after the blast 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Flowers will be laid at the glass obelisk at 15:10 BST, the time that the dissident republican car bomb exploded. Omagh bomb: Families mark 25th anniversary with private service 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z "This is a very obvious attempt by dissident republicans to intimidate me," Mr Kelly said. PSNI data breach: Half of police officers push for damages 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z It followed an attack on an off-duty senior detective, who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries. PSNI data breach: Civilian worker 'no longer feels safe in home' 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z That followed an attack on a senior officer who suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries. PSNI data breach: Donaldson says police should not be left leaderless 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z It was carried out by dissident republican group the Real IRA, which split from the much larger Provisional IRA after objecting to its ceasefire of 1997. Omagh bomb: Memorial service will mark 25th anniversary 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z The opposition now consists of his party's dissidents, including the leader of the opposition Raja Riaz. Explainer: What lies ahead for Pakistan as it heads to polls 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z But that decision was not accepted by a minority of republicans - referred to as "dissidents". PSNI data breach: Officers looking over their shoulders 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z In the most recent major attack in February, an off-duty senior detective suffered life-changing injuries after being shot several times by dissident republican paramilitaries. PSNI data breach: Ex-officer says incident meant sleepless nights 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z He said dissident republican paramilitaries could use the list of names to generate "fear and uncertainty". PSNI data breach: Donaldson says police should not be left leaderless 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z The report said Iran had been engaged in societal interference by monitoring and reporting on Iranian communities and dissident groups in New Zealand. China, Russia and Iran are engaged in foreign interference in New Zealand, intelligence agency says 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Western leaders, Russian dissidents and some Russian historians reject such an interpretation, casting the war in Ukraine as a strategic blunder that has exposed Russia's weaknesses and forged Ukrainian nationalism into statehood. Kremlin aide rewrites Russian history for a society at war 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Police are assessing a claim by dissident republicans that they have the leaked information. PSNI data breach: Officers looking over their shoulders 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years after a peace agreement largely ended the violence, many police officers continue to shield their identities because of continuing threats from dissident elements of the republican and unionist communities. Northern Ireland’s top police officer apologizes for ‘industrial scale’ data breach 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The arrests further intensified the Hong Kong government’s crackdown on dissidents after the 2019 protests. Hong Kong police arrest 10 people accused of supporting overseas activists after 2019 protests 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Mr Nesbitt, who sits on the Policing Board, which oversees the PSNI, said the biggest threat came from dissident republicans who opposed the peace process and wanted to destabilise the PSNI. PSNI data breach: Police update security advice after data error 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Kagarlitsky, 64, known as a dissident since Soviet times, has repeatedly spoken out against the war in a magazine he edited and on his YouTube channel. Russian leftist dissident critical of war designated a "terrorist" 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z Kashmiri dissidents launched a full-blown armed revolt in 1989, seeking unification with Pakistan or complete independence. Kashmir leader says the region lacks democracy and asks India to restore its special status 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The Biden administration blacklisted NSO after years of scandal associated with its primary hacking tool, Pegasus, which authoritarian governments and democracies alike have used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents. Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Others say they are political dissidents or otherwise seeking to escape the oppression of the Communist Party. In an L.A. suburb, Chinese 'border crossers' seek a new life after harrowing journey 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z They currently face a threat from dissident republican groups who oppose the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and remain committed to using violence to try to bring about a united Ireland. PSNI data breach: Police update security advice after data error 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z The threats appear to be part of Beijing’s increasingly sophisticated efforts to harass Chinese dissidents living overseas and their families. Accused of bomb threats they say they didn’t make, family of Chinese dissident detained in Thailand 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z World leaders, celebrities and athletes, dissidents in repressive regimes, propaganda trolls, sex workers and religious icons, meme queens and actual queens. Elon Musk wants to turn tweets into ‘X’s’. But changing language is not quite so simple 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z In 2017, Saud al-Qahtani, a senior adviser to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, used Landmark to track dissidents as part of the kingdom’s brutal campaign to crack down on its perceived enemies. Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z His career took a dive after he and a friend wrote a letter in 1974 defending Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident writer who had been expelled from the Soviet Union. Sixty-six years after returning to Russia, mathematician is an exile once more 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Yegiazaryan’s lengthy legal battle has been followed by a small circle of Putin’s critics, who see courts in the West being used to harass dissidents even as the war rages in Ukraine. A Russian exile won $200 million from a Putin crony. He could lose it all in U.S. courts 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Thailand has a record of deporting dissidents and refugees back to China, sometimes at the request of the Chinese government. Accused of bomb threats they say they didn’t make, family of Chinese dissident detained in Thailand 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Targets are said to include members of parliament and Chinese dissidents. Ex-Canadian Mountie charged over alleged China interference 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z This month, a dissident group within the Amazon Labor Union filed a complaint in federal court seeking to force the union to hold a leadership election. 'The only enemy is Amazon': Union leader talks Bezos, infighting during WA visit 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, the White House issued an executive order restricting federal agencies from using spyware tools that have been abused by governments to spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists. U.S. Blacklists Two Spyware Firms Run by an Israeli Former General 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Such tools are regularly used for political repression and other human rights abuses, including for spying on journalists and intimidating political dissidents. Two European spyware firms added to US export blacklist 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z North Korea levelled an array of charges for what it called Mr Bae's "hostile acts" including attempting to establish bases for anti-government activities, smuggling in forbidden literature, and encouraging dissidents. What happened to US citizens like Otto Warmbier detained in North Korea 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Canada's concerns over Chinese espionage are similar to those of the United States government, which has repeatedly accused China of intimidating and spying on dissidents based in the US. Ex-Canadian Mountie charged over alleged China interference 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z She added: "Northern Ireland related terrorism remains a significant threat. Despite the significant progress in the last 20 years, some dissident groups continue to carry out attacks." UK terrorism risk is rising - Suella Braverman 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Those sacred places have gone from being sanctuaries for the poor, the political dissident and even the heretic to killing fields for mass murderers who see them as soft targets for their rage and hatred. The Tree of Life shooting horrified the nation: Is that a good reason for the death penalty? 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z In December 2021, digital sleuths at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab discovered Predator spyware on the iPhone of a leading exiled Egyptian dissident. Two European spyware firms added to US export blacklist 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z A Ukrainian intelligence official said the Russian fear of dissidents had become “pathological” since last fall, as Russians brace for Ukraine’s counteroffensive. Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “All those dissidents going into Lefortovo — the name horrifies you,” she said in an interview with ABC’s “Nightline” that aired early on Wednesday. Biden Vowed to Bring Gershkovich Home, His Parents Say 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Coming at a time when Czech reformers were seeking to establish "socialism with a human face", the novel was a first step in Kundera's path from party member to exiled dissident, a moniker he disdained. Novelist Kundera mixed philosophy, irony to explore human nature 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” follows a dissident surgeon from Prague to exile in Geneva and back home again. Milan Kundera, Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris aged 94 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z A dissident group within the Amazon Labor Union, the only certified union in the country representing Amazon employees, filed a complaint in federal court Monday seeking to force the union to hold a leadership election. Amazon Union Dissidents, in Challenge to Leader, Move to Force Vote 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z It “explains the interest he always showed throughout his journalistic career for refugees, dissidents, those without a voice and the downtrodden,” he said. Henry Kamm, Pulitzer-Winning New York Times Journalist, Dies at 98 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z |
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