With her western friends, she created the Jan Hus Foundation, which was to become a major source of support for the dissident community.

The idea was a lightning rod in the dissident community and landed Benda in jail for years as a result.

Some of the Chinese do have close ties to the dissident community here.

This time, controversy would be generated not by the exiled dissident community, but by the Chinese government.

A dissident community flourished as Romania became more the liberal and allowed more freedom of expression.

He had some contacts in the island's small dissident community.

Zarni stated later that the effort failed because of what he described as a leak within the Burmese dissident community.

His statement led some in Cuba's dissident community to voice suspicions that he had been working with the authorities.

The arrival of more people into the dissident community does not particularly strengthen the community.

Not everyone in the dissident community supported the move.