By the end of the year, the Velvet Revolution in what was then Czechoslovakia saw dissident playwright Vaclav Havel elected president.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Within weeks,the Communist Party leadership resigned, and dissident writer Vaclav Havel, who had spent years in prison, was named president on December 29,1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

What do you do with a dissident general from another country arrested in your territory?

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

Secretary Clinton warned against those seeking to disrupt the peace process, referring to dissident republicans who killed two British soldiers and a policeman earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Longtime dissident Miklos Haraszti co-founded the Hungarian democratic opposition movement in the mid-1970s.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

That's because all the ethnic leaders, ceasefire leaders, all the ethnic party leaders, all dissident leaders, all the leaders, they agree to give their mandate to Aung San Suu Kyi to sit down at the dialogue table with the military junta."

VOA: standard.2009.06.19