It was unclear how far the campaign against dissident intellectuals would be carried.

In 1988, she became deputy chief editor of Economics Weekly, edited by dissident intellectuals.

He became a well-known writer and gave moral and monetary support to dissident intellectuals representing a variety of points of view.

He recently warned that "dissident intellectuals who believe in their exclusivity and elitism" are a grave danger to Czech society.

China's most prominent dissident intellectual, breaking an imposed silence, today assailed harsh political controls on university students and teachers.

A decade of industrialisation was accompanied also by a fervent cultural and literary production with many tensions between the regime and the dissident intellectuals.

These massacres were silenced, and remained a taboo topic until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when dissident intellectuals brought it to public discussion.

Mr. Xu, one of China's most prominent dissident intellectuals, was released a year ago after 12 years in prison.

In the 1980s, Jambrek started collaborating with dissident intellectuals around the journal Nova revija.

These included stories about the "Chain murders" of dissident intellectuals by members of Iran's intelligence ministry.