dissidents

1. Persons who refuse to conform to prevailing political and social values.

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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour put a symphony orchestra on stage alongside the actors in a savage satire which dramatised the plight of Soviet dissidents locked away in mental hospitals.

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The allegations against them emerged from intelligence gleaned from phones and other devices seized in July 2024, when Calarca and other dissidents were temporarily detained.

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Some users criticized the launch, warning that it could expose the locations of dissidents and protestors in autocratic states.

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Mr. Freedland focuses on a group of dissidents who were not “the usual suspects.”

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The son of a German soldier in Hitler's Nazi army has defended Pinochet, who overthrew a democratically elected socialist president in 1973 and oversaw a regime that killed thousands of dissidents.

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