A dissident is to a dictatorship what a bald fact is to an edifice of lies, the revelation of which causes the whole thing to crumble.
Tags: Biden, Joseph R Jr ( 5,151 ), Blinken, Antony J ( 200 ), China ( 2,200 ), Clinton, Hillary Rodham ( 107 ), Cuba ( 72 ), Deripaska, Oleg V ( 9 ), Evin Prison ( 5 ), Ferrer, Jose Daniel, Havel, Vaclav ( 4 ), Hong Kong ( 340 ), Human Rights and Human Rights Violations ( 484 ), Iran ( 335 ), Lai, Jimmy ( 24 ), Mandela, Nelson ( 12 ), Navalny, Aleksei A ( 145 ), Political Prisoners ( 217 ), Putin, Vladimir V ( 1,130 ), Russia ( 1,826 ), Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I ( 2 ), Sotoudeh, Nasrin ( 3 ), South Africa ( 194 ), Tohti, Ilham, United States International Relations ( 1,805 ), Walesa, Lech, Wong, Joshua (1996- ) ( 12 )