dissidents

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She can’t afford to permit the freedoms of speech and assembly that an unconditional release of dissidents would unleash.

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In the 1990s and 2000s, Khamenei allowed for reformist governments to run for elections, and win, but he dealt harshly with dissidents.

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MIAMI—In recent weeks, family members of a group of Cuban dissidents who overheard their making plans to “liberate Cuba” dismissed the talk as the kind of bravado that is common among Cuban-American exiles.

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ICE has detained foreign dissidents, U.S. citizens, college students and children.

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The sacked law professor Tomasek, accused of reporting on Czechoslovak dissidents in France in the 1980s according to Czech media, declined to comment on the case for AFP.

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