In mid-January, the government released a series of high-profile political dissidents from prison in an amnesty.
In February, a United Nations envoy published a scathing report on Cuba's treatment of political dissidents in prison.
Meanwhile, Iran's Supreme Court commuted death sentences on ex-secret agents found guilty of murdering four political dissidents in 1998.
The US has hailed recent reforms from the formerly military-ruled state, including the release of political dissidents and relaxed censorship.
It was the community atmosphere that first attracted Naing Oo, the son of political dissidents from Myanmar, also known as Burma.
But it has new resonance as the Internet has given governments new capacities for tracking and punishing human rights advocates and political dissidents.
Many of those pseudonyms, OWNI has found, corresponded with political dissidents and activists that Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi had sought to jail or kill.
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But in April it praised the country's advances in several areas, such as releasing some political dissidents and signing an agreement on religious freedom.
His boldness in speaking out for the rights of political dissidents, and denouncing vigilante violence, led to his being physically assaulted in September 1998.
Some American conservatives, however, have criticized the restoration of ties with the communist country, saying that the United States should have required the release of political dissidents.
The government has warned him to stand down, and human rights organizations have reported that his campaign advisers have been detained as political dissidents.
All of those actions (assassinations and arrests of political dissidents) have occurred, do occur, and will continue to occur without the aid of cyber attacks.
Political dissidents continue to be suppressed as they were in 1989-1991.
Companies under the congressional microscope included Cisco, which Smith accused of helping China create a "police net" database used to track and imprison political dissidents around the country.
TORTURE, as a way of drawing confessions from criminals or political dissidents, is theoretically banned in Iran but used there as it is in all too many other countries.
As an active supporter of the Green Movement, he was arrested for "activity against the country's security" and spent time in Evin prison, the notorious prison for Iran's political dissidents.
Researchers at the OpenNet Initiative reported Friday that the country's only Internet service provider, Myanmar Infotech, had begun relaying data again sometime Thursday, raising hopes that political dissidents will manage to smuggle out more information about the recent violence.
Iran's intelligence ministry admitted that its agents had been directly implicated in the recent murders of political and intellectual dissidents .
But even if they do this, our correspondent says the prime minister may find himself battling for his political life as dissidents from within his own party question his leadership.
She launched her hunger strike to protest her confinement at Evin, which houses many Iranian dissidents and political prisoners.
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Roxana Saberi launched her hunger strike to protest her confinement at Evin, which houses many Iranian dissidents and political prisoners.
Then, they said he had orchestrated a purge of dissidents to further political goals.
In the worst repressions of the Soviet period the label "foreign agents" was used to denounce dissidents - or simply political rivals of Joseph Stalin - and could lead to execution.
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Dissidents, undirected by any political party or opposition, had already mobilized to create a wholly different situation.
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Our reports on Zimbabwe and North Korea exposed the political manipulation of food as a way to starve dissidents.
The dissidents say that bureaucratic burdens, new political targets, rising patient expectations and evolving medical treatments are conspiring to make their jobs impossible, and to damage patient care: average time per patient is now around eight or nine minutes.
Another concern is that even if the laws governing political dissent grow more liberal, the state's attitude to dissidents is often anything but.
For all the political hoopla, devolved policing will not deliver an early victory over the dissidents who killed Stephen Carroll.
The Catholic Church in Cuba has acted as a mediator between dissidents and the government, successfully negotiating the release of 75 political prisoners over the past years.
As for political freedom, Bush said the U.S. is alarmed by the plight of political prisoners, as well as by the intimidation and oppression that activists, journalists and dissidents experience.
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