What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death.

Just hours after news broke that Belarusian dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski had been released from prison and relocated to Lithuania, AP reporter Yuras ...

But the other, Pennsylvania’s Brian Fitzpatrick, had stayed relatively quiet, avoiding the limelight and any real blowback ...

A new era of authoritarianism has dawned in the “land of liberty”. What can US political activists learn from those who ...

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to 19 more years of prison Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading opposition figure who is already in prison, received a new sentence of 19 years this ...

To mark another anniversary of the death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá on Tuesday, the National Endowment for Democracy ...

Political Dissident or $1 Billion Fraudster? A Chinese Tycoon Heads to Trial Jurors to weigh the fate of high-living developer and Beijing critic Guo Wengui, who linked up with Steve Bannon ...

56 years after her wrongful execution, the poet-journalist turned dissident Lin Zhao is still mourned in China. Lin, a Peking University student persecuted during the anti-Rightist Campaign, was ...

Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi was rearrested in northern Iran on Thursday, less than two weeks after his release from prison, according to his official social media channel.

The dissident blogger will now stay under house arrest until the court’s verdict comes into force, prosecutor Natalya Sokolova told journalists, the news agency reported, ...

A dissident republican jailed over a Christmas painting of a bomber snowman has been found guilty of displaying IRA signs.