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Collection of dissident news, found 36 news.

Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu Xiaobo released on medical parole

Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winning rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole and is ...

After Castro`s death, dissidents see changes ahead

Now that Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro is dead, one of his most prominent critics says he sees big economic ...

For Chinese officials, Trump perhaps better the devil they don`t know

In 2010, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provoked outrage in Beijing when she pushed the South China Sea to ...

Kerry in Riyadh as Saudi-Iran tensions simmer

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday hoping for an easing of tensions between the ...

Large protests in Vietnam over China oil rig

Protesters staged one of Vietnams largest ever anti-China demonstrations Sunday, decrying Beijings deployment of a ...

Snowden applies for Russia asylum

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden applied Tuesday for temporary asylum in Russia, ending three weeks of ...

Exiled dissidents claim Iran building new nuclear site

An exiled opposition group said on Thursday it had obtained information about a secret underground nuclear site under ...

Film shows artist Ai Weiwei`s conflicted relationship with China

Artist Ai Weiwei has made headlines worldwide since his detention in China last year, but outside art circles few ...

Cuba offers to meet with longtime foe US

Cuba`s communist regime marked 59 years Thursday since the launch of the revolution that brought it to power, using ...

Suu Kyi makes Myanmar parliament debut

Aung San Suu Kyi made her historic debut in Myanmar`s fledgling parliament on Monday as the opposition leader and her ...

US, China to hold talks on rights

The United States and China agreed Friday to hold a new round of talks on human rights, amid a crisis between the ...

Clinton presses China on rights

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday told China that it cannot deny the "aspirations" of its citizens as ...

Cuban dissident detained after Pope visit released

Police in Cuba on Sunday released Jose Daniel Ferrer, a political dissident arrested shortly after the visit to the ...

Egypt's Elbaradei unveils new party

Leading Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei on Saturday unveiled a new party he said was aimed at rescuing last ...

British PM meets Myanmar leader on historic visit

British Prime Minister David Cameron met Myanmar's president Friday on the first visit in decades by a Western leader ...