Just a few dissenters.

Now, there were two dissenters, one of whom was Justice Scalia.

(i) The continuing persecution and arbitrary sentencing to prison of human rights defenders, political opponents, religious dissenters and reformists

Parliamentary democracy was introduced in Bangladesh in 1991 and since then no systematic oppression of dissenters has been reported.

The dissenters stated that their colleagues had brought into question the honour and dignity of the profession and the reputation of the judiciary in total .

(i) The continuing persecution, including through the systematic and arbitrary use of prolonged solitary confinement, and arbitrary sentencing to prison of human rights defenders, political opponents, religious dissenters and reformists

He's been christened the voice of a generation, and he's churning out classic songs at a seemingly impossible rate, but there's a small minority of dissenters, and they claim that Bob Dylan is stealing other people's songs.

As for human rights that are particularly valued in the contemporary West those of dissenters and minorities, including sexual minorities Russia seems to be on a completely different wavelength. Independent NGOs are harassed and dubbed foreign agents.

Moreover, persecution of political dissenters does not now reach far beyond the accused to involve their associates. While scores have lost their positions and others have been imprisoned, most are briefly detained and then allowed to find other jobs in China s burgeoning civil society.

154. This steady deterioration of the principle of legality eventually leads to a veritable transformation of the rule of law, whereby the state of emergency degenerates into a factor of escalation of the crisis and becomes an instrument for repressing the opposition and dissenters.

But there have also been iconoclastic dissenters from such comprehensive approaches, among whom Albert Hirschman was without doubt the most distinguished. Indeed, Hirschman s seminal contributions have now been recognized by the United States Social Science Research Council, which this year established a prize in his honor.

It is an insidious and effective strategy, one that marginalizes dissenters and generates the impression of near universal support for the regime. On my last visit to Moscow, I noticed that a friend, a singer in the Bolshoi opera, had tied a small Ribbon of Saint George to her white Mercedes.

Natan Sharansky said that this tactic the West tracking and demanding accountability for the treatment of individual internal dissenters helped break up the Soviet Union. In this crisis, the US president should form a united front with human rights groups, which can advise him exactly how to follow, sustain, and support those Iranians who have been or may yet be arrested, or worse.

The Prophet s hadith about Yemen has enjoyed new resonance ever since the 1980 s, when Saudi Arabia in line with American policy sought to export domestic dissenters, most prominently Osama bin Laden, a Yemeni of Saudi birth, to fight Soviet infidels in Afghanistan. Although dissent was mostly diverted to Afghanistan, bin Laden s most trusted companions (his wife, too) have remained mainly in Yemen.

The staunchly pro American Saakashvili launched successful economic reforms and an all out assault on police corruption, though he, too, eventually was accused of taking bribes and indulging autocratic impulses. Having come to power in the revolt that overthrew the corrupt Shevardnadze, he resorted to the same Soviet style techniques intimidating and discrediting opponents, dispersing dissenters by force to keep his opponents at bay.

Then this scientist will be surprised (or not) to discover that the Russian majority views Joseph Stalin as the third most popular person in a contest to be known as the Face of Russia. In the meantime, his junior colleague in Russia, who still has his whole future in front of him, does not attend the Dissenters March, but simply emigrates, which is also a form of protest.