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dissident

adjective as in disagreeing, differing

noun as in person who holds different belief

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In 2014, South Africa expelled three Rwandan diplomats after an attack on the home of an exiled Rwandan dissident in Johannesburg.

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Party loyalty can’t be a suicide pact and, besides, it’s better to have a dissident member of your own party in office than someone from the other party.

A leading Cuban dissident and activist has been released from jail as part of a wider prisoner release deal between the Cuban government and the United States.

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His remains, thought to be in a mass grave with those of other political dissidents, have never been identified.

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Last November Thailand sent six Cambodian dissidents, together with a young child, back to Cambodia, where they were immediately jailed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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