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• n  a person who dissents from some established policy
• s  characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
• s  disagreeing, especially with a majority

• This spate of security disruptions is widely believed to be the work of dissident republican terrorists such as the Real IRA and Continuity IRA and their supporters, who .
• But that is exactly what happened foreign journalists and diplomats saw in the trial of dissident priest Father Nguyen Van Ly and four other activists.
• Even now, as the Tiananmen veterans splinter into factions of recrimination and guilt, Wang Dan has maintained an integrity that perhaps no other top dissident enjoys.

• dissenter
• protester
• objector
• contestant
• heretical
• heterodox
• dissentient
• dissenting

News & Articles

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• Mortar attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq kills three
  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp killed three people in Baghdad on Saturday, police sources said, and the Mujahidin-e-Khalq (MEK) group said Iran was probably to blame, with Iraqi complicity. MEK said two of the camp's residents were killed and 40 wounded in the attack. An Iraqi died when a stray mortar round hit a residential complex for Baghdad airport employees ...
  June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Two killed in mortar attack on Iranian dissident camp in Iraq
  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two people were killed in a mortar attack on an Iranian dissident camp in the Iraqi capital on Saturday, police sources said. The Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) group, said a further 27 people were wounded in the attack. A similar attack in February killed at least five of its members. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. MEK, which was removed from the U.S ...
  June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Chinese dissident to leave New York University shortly
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who left his home country last year and became a visiting scholar at New York University, will leave the school this summer but will likely remain in the United States, university officials said on Thursday. Chen made international headlines last year when he escaped house arrest in China's Shandong province, after ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ian Paisley in guardian.co.uk
  In a swipe at Sinn Féin, who accused Sir Hugh of exaggerating the threat from dissident republican terrorists last week, Paisley added: "If this shooting is attributed to dissident republicans, then it was no exaggeration."
• Max Mosley in guardian.co.uk
  Over recent weeks it has become increasingly clear that one of the objectives of the dissident teams is that I should resign,Mosley said in the letter seen by Reuters.
• Jeffrey Donaldson in Daily Post
  Jeffrey Donaldson, DUP minister in the Stormont Executive, said: "This information comes as no surprise to me as I'm aware of the very high level of activity that there is at the minute from dissident republicans. This activity is targeted at...