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Political dissidents are people severely persecuted by governments or other organizations for political reasons.
They are not necessarily the only or most important dissidents, but they become famous or semi-famous often through the stories told by themselves or by others.
[edit] Ancient Era
[edit] Modern era
[edit] Azerbaijan
[edit] Argentina
[edit] Brazil
[edit] Bulgaria
[edit] Chad
[edit] China
See also List of Chinese dissidents
[edit] Colombia
[edit] Czech Republic
[edit] Dominican Republic
[edit] El Salvador
[edit] Germany
- Martin Luther
- Thomas Müntzer
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Engels
- Ferdinand Lassalle
- Jacob Grimm
- Wilhelm Grimm
- Wilhelm Liebknecht
- Clara Zetkin
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Karl Liebknecht
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Ernst Thälmann
- Adolf Hitler
- Carl von Ossietzky
- Max Hoelz
- Erich Mühsam
- Liselotte Herrmann
- Rudi Dutschke
[edit] Ghana
[edit] Greece
[edit] Indonesia
[edit] Korea
[edit] Haiti
[edit] Hungary
[edit] India
[edit] Malawi
[edit] Malaysia
[edit] Morocco
[edit] Myanmar
[edit] Nicaragua
[edit] Nigeria
[edit] Pakistan
[edit] Peru
[edit] Philippines
[edit] Poland
[edit] Russia / Soviet Union
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Andrei Sakharov
- Anton Chekhov
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Gary Kasparov
- Leon Trotsky
- Sergey Kirov
- Valery Sablin
- Zviad Gamsakhurdia
- Vyacheslav Chornovil
- Aleksandr Ginzburg
- Eduard Limonov
[edit] Senegal
[edit] Serbia
[edit] Singapore
See also List of Singaporean dissidents
[edit] South Africa
- Nelson Mandela
- Helen Suzman
- Walter Sisulu
- Oliver Tambo
- Chris Hani
- Ruth First
- Joe Slovo
- Winnie Mandela
- Bram Fischer
- Stephen Biko
- Donald Woods
- Desmond Tutu
[edit] Syria
[edit] Taiwan
[edit] Tunisia
[edit] United States
- Thomas Paine
- John Brown
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Nicola Sacco and Bart Vanzetti
- Woody Guthrie
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Chief Joseph
- Roger Williams
- Sitting Bull
- Tecumseh
- Joe Hill
- Pete Seeger
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Ted Kaczynski
- Elliott Madison
- Noam Chomsky
- Jared Taylor
