dissidents
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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.
From BBC
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.
From Barron's
Some users criticized the launch, warning that it could expose the locations of dissidents and protestors in autocratic states.
From Barron's
Mr. Freedland focuses on a group of dissidents who were not “the usual suspects.”
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.
From Barron's
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