Tag: dissident
A 1989 dissident places recent China protests in context
Wang Dan helped organize the 1989 student protests in Tiananmen Square. In Tokyo, he explains why he thinks the new movement is important. Chinese dissident Wang Dan has lived in…
Former CCP leader turned dissident Bao Tong dies
Bao Tong, in Beijing, February 22, 2011. GOH CHAI HIN / AFP “I wonder if I will see a democratic China in my lifetime. » This is how Bao Tong…
For dissident Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev, Russia “has already lost the war”
Russian diplomats, including Boris Bondarev (right), Russia’s adviser to the United Nations in Geneva, May 11, 2022. MARK HENLEY/PANOS-REA On the LinkedIn social network, he describes himself as “diplomat in…
the army killed the main leader of the FARC dissident
Writing with AFP 07/15/2022 at 8:05 PMUpdated 07/15/2022 at 7:45 PM The main dissident leader of the ex-guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Nestor Vera, alias “Ivan Mordisco”, was…
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi arrested
Still from Taxi Tehran by Jafar Panahi, which won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2015 Berlinale. JAFAR PANAHI FILM PRODUCTIONS/MEMENTO FILMS DISTRIBUTION Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi,…
Cuba: 5 and 9 year prison sentences against two dissident artists
Five- and nine-year prison sentences were handed down to Cuban dissident artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Maykel, respectively.Osorbo“Castillo, announced Friday, June 24 the general prosecutor’s office. Read alsoCuba: 74…
French officials withdraw from Hong Kong dissident Nathan Law
Nathan Law, Hong Kong activist in exile, in Paris, June 21, 2022. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP It is not easy for a Chinese dissident to knock on the doors of…
Legislative: Nathalie Elimas, former minister of Macron, presents herself as a dissident in Val-d’Oise
While the presidential party on Wednesday invested a candidate in the constituency of the former minister accused of harassment, the latter announced that she would still be a candidate. From…
Up to ten years in prison required against dissident Cuban artists
Rapper Maykel Castillo aka “Osorbo” and performer Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara have been imprisoned for almost a year. The latter is considered by the Cuban government as an agent in…
“Dissident artist Ai Weiwei crystallizes the hypocrisy of relations between China and the rest of the world”
Chronic. Is creating with a bit of freedom still possible in a China opening its Winter Olympics in splendid isolation? We can doubt it by reading 1000 years of joys…
In Madrid, Cuban dissident artist Yunior Garcia can speak again
Cuban dissident artist Yunior Garcia, in Madrid, Spain on November 30, 2021. CESAR DEZFULI FOR “THE WORLD” Interviews in the international media, opinion pieces in the Spanish press, and even…
Hernan Dario Velasquez, one of the dissident FARC leaders, killed in Venezuela
Hernan Dario Velasquez, nicknamed “El Paisa”, one of the dissident commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was shot dead in Venezuela by other rebels, Colombian press reported…