2012 Event A Beijing court announces it will hear artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, held and gagged on tax evasion charges by the People's Republic of China 2012 Event Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese dissident, requests help from the U.S. Congress in his attempt to flee China with his family 2012 Event After Chen Guangcheng flees house arrest, U.S. President Barack Obama refuses to comment on the blind Chinese dissident who reportedly went to the U.S. embassy 2010 Event The European Parliament awards Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 1997 Death Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany 1989 Death Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68 1986 Event U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile 1984 Death Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped and murdered 1983 Death Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia journalist/dissident, dies at 61 1982 Death Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies 1980 Death Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42 1978 Event Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp 1978 Event Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work 1976 Event Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan 1976 Event U.S.S.R. banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands 1975 Event Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize 1974 Event Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R. 1957 Event Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years 1938 Birthday Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident 1938 Birthday Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident 1937 Birthday Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar' 1936 Birthday Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin 1936 Birthday Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident 1933 Birthday Reiner Kunze, born in Oelsnitz, Germany, writer, dissident of the German Democratic Republic, book, 'The Lovely Years', published in West Germany 1922 Birthday Jiri Lederer, born in Czechoslovakia, journalist/dissident 1638 Event Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass Bay Colony 1635 Event Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
