Frequent high-level consultations and joint military exercises, meant to discourage potential dissidents and to protect young " revolutions " in each country, were fairly regular features of Ghana-Burkina relations.

Many thousands of dissidents, deserters, or other people were arrested, tortured or executed by various Cheka groups.

Thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were also released.

Frequent high-level consultations and joint military exercises, meant to discourage potential dissidents and to protect young " revolutions " in each country, were fairly regular features of Ghana-Burkina relations.

While thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were released in the spirit of glasnost, Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union was not achieved.

Various categories of prisoners were defined: petty criminals, POWs of the Russian Civil War, officials accused of corruption, sabotage and embezzlement, political enemies, dissidents and other people deemed dangerous for the state.

A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government.

Under Taya, relations between the two countries were correct, even though each accused the other of harboring exiled dissidents.

In April 1995, fewer than two weeks after the referendum extending President Karimov's term, six dissidents were sentenced to prison for distributing the party newspaper of Erk / Liberty and inciting the overthrow of Karimov.

Giacomo Lacaita, legal adviser to the British embassy, was imprisoned by the Neapolitan government, as were other political dissidents.

Many other prominent political dissidents were either kidnapped and forcibly returned to the Soviet Union or were found dead under highly suspicious circumstances, including Alexander Kutepov, General Evgeny Miller, Lev Sedov, and former German Communist Party ( KPD ) member Willi Münzenberg.

Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew.

Some young dissidents were incensed – some burnt his books and the singer Karel Kryl called him a “ whore ”.

Les Automatistes were a group of Québécois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec.

Corpses of purported FLN members displayed by the unit were in fact those of dissidents and members of other Algerian groups killed by the FLN.

Security forces were ordered to crackdown on the dissidents.

They were dubbed " dissidents " and could not publish their major works until the 1960s.

In the 1984 expose entitled, " Behind the Death Squads: An exclusive report on the U. S. role in El Salvador's official terror ", award winning investigative journalist, Allan Nairn reported that the CIA routinely supplied ANSESAL, the security forces ( National Guard, National Police, Treasury Police ), and the general staff with electronic, photographic, and personal surveillance of suspected dissidents and Salvadorans abroad who were later assassinated by death squads ; and trained Salvadoran intelligence operatives in the use of investigative techniques which included, according to a former Treasury Police agent, " instruction in methods of physical and psychological torture.

And the Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing " a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them " and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.

In a 1979 U. S. Senate report, it was stated that U. S. officials were aware, as early as 1973, that Philippine government agents were in the United States to harass Filipino dissidents.

* The CoDominium series of Jerry Pournelle showed several planets, such as Tanith and Haven, that were used as dumping grounds for criminals and dissidents,

Because Ducal Prussia was ostensibly a Lutheran land, authorities travelled throughout the duchy ensuring that Lutheran teachings were being followed and imposing penalties on pagans and dissidents.

The church received a minor vindication of its position when, in denying a request for fees by the dissidents ' attorney, Hillel Chodos, the Second Court of Appeals overturned the decision on procedural grounds and added as dicta, " We are of the opinion that the underlying action the State-imposed receivership and its attendant provisional remedy of receivership were from the inception constitutionally infirm and predestined to failure.

Due to his use of literature to criticize Soviet society, Zamyatin has been referred to as one of the first Soviet dissidents.

Rapid Action Brigades ( Brigadas de Acción Rapida, also referred to as Rapid Response Brigades, or Brigadas de Respuesta Rápida ) observe and control dissidents.

In this context, the term fascist generally referred to conservative positions which prioritized the maintenance of existing social relations over various personal rights upheld by protesters and dissidents.

In June 1989 the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) was founded by Croatian nationalist dissidents led by Franjo Tuđman a former fighter in Tito's Partisan movement and JNA General.

The National Front system itself eventually began to be seen as a form of political repression by dissidents and even many mainstream voters, especially after wljhhat was apparently later confirmed as the fraudulent election of Conservative candidate Misael Pastrana in 1970, which resulted in the defeat of the relatively populist candidate Gustavo Rojas.

The leadership of this multi-ethnic movement came to be dominated by leftist, Christian dissidents who spoke Tigrinya, Eritrea's predominant language.

He had a particularly important part in opening a dialogue between the west European peace movement and dissidents in Soviet-dominated eastern Europe, particularly in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, for which he was denounced as a tool of American imperialism by the Soviet authorities.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in as President of the Maldives on 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation of President Nasheed amidst weeks of protests and demonstrations led by local police dissidents who opposed Nasheed ’ s 16 January order for the military to arrest Abdulla Mohamed, the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court.

Scattered acts of rioting and vandalism of public buildings followed, but most actions by the dissidents remained nonviolent.

On November 20, 1979 two hundred armed Islamist dissidents led by Saudi preacher Juhayman al-Otaibi seized the Grand Mosque.

The Puerto Rican Independence Party was formed six years later by dissidents who saw the PPD moving away from the ideal of independence.

Another fundamental difference is that where perestroika was accompanied by greater political freedoms under Gorbachev's glasnost policies, Chinese economic reform has been accompanied by continued authoritarian rule and a suppression of political dissidents, most notably at Tiananmen Square.

A company controlled by the state may have access to information or assets which may be used against dissidents or any individuals who disagree with their policies.

The UAP was formed in 1931 by Labor dissidents and a conservative coalition as a response to the more radical economic proposals of Labor Party members to deal with the Great Depression in Australia.

On 7 May, the Nationalist opposition ( hitherto led by John Latham ), the six Labor dissidents ( who had formed the All for Australia League ), and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes ' Australian Party ( a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled for crossing the floor and bringing down Stanley Bruce's Nationalist government in 1929 ), merged to form the UAP.

Amnesty International accused Arafat and the PNA leadership for failing to adequately investigate abuses by the PSS ( including torture and unlawful killings ) of political opponents and dissidents as well as the arrests of human rights activists.

In 1993, the Liberal Forum was founded by dissidents from the FPÖ.

In 1968, Andropov as the KGB Chairman issued his order “ On the tasks of State security agencies in combating the ideological sabotage by the adversary ”, calling for struggle against dissidents and their imperialist masters.

The proposal by Andropov to use psychiatry for struggle against dissidents was implemented.

The coup was defeated by the crew of the USS Enterprise-E with assistance from dissidents within the Romulan fleet, opening up the possibility of improved UFP / Romulan relations after over two centuries of tension.

In 1970, conflict between Portuguese forces and the PAIGC in neighbouring Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) spilled into the Republic of Guinea when a group of 350 Portuguese troops and Guinean dissidents landed near Conakry, attacked the city, and freed 26 Portuguese prisoners of war held by the PAIGC before retreating, failing to overthrow the government or kill the PAIGC leadership.

The State Department was alarmed by Brzezinski's support for East German dissidents and objected to his suggestion that Carter's first overseas visit be to Poland.