Mr. Hodac denies political bias and has tried to discharge 30 of the dissident journalists, who have tried to protect themselves legally by declaring a strike.

Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the 'disappeared'.

Political prisoners, including a key dissident journalist, began to be released, the curfew was shortened, cafes reopened and people milled to work.

To begin with an obvious question: Why should a figure of Kissinger's stature either know about, or care about, the existence of a lone dissident journalist?

A newspaper run by dissident journalists began publication in 1988.

She chose to write on the dissident journalists involved in Poland's Solidarity movement, then in its infancy but gaining international attention.

She was a noted dissident journalist during the turbulent period of Communist Romania's late eighties.

In 1995, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel described him as "Cuba's leading dissident journalist".

Victor Sokolov, 59, dissident ex-Soviet journalist, and Orthodox priest, lung cancer.

'It's pure joy,' one dissident journalist said.