In April, the atmosphere was darkened by the torture-death of a student dissident and a subsequent police cover-up.

The Government today released a student dissident from prison and dropped charges against an unofficial labor leader, the official New China News Agency announced.

At Harvard he played a major role in negotiating with student dissidents and antiwar demonstrators.

During the 1989 democracy movement, he gave the student dissidents advice and worked behind the scenes to encourage broad social support for them.

Cuba, which led the fight, castigated the organization for its "irreverent" criticism of China's massacre of student dissidents.

Mr. Milosevic's concessions to student dissidents' demands in 1992 brought to an end the last major protests against his rule.

Akbar Mohammadi, 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture.

He spoke passionately to student dissidents about the need to organise.

Before failing as a husband and as a businessman he had some modest success as a police officer, beating up student dissidents and labor leaders.

How many student dissidents we know nothing about?