1.   Human rights groups have fought, for example, for wording that would assure that American companies do not dismiss workers who are arrested for engaging in dissident activity.

2.   The government is especially sensitive about dissident activities, because of growing unemployment and frequent protests by unpaid workers.

3.   Police warned her not to go out and be involved in any dissident activities, the report said.

4.   After several years, Japan agreed to close the case if Kim was allowed to go abroad and given immunity for his former dissident activity.

5.   Amnesty International said those released include professional people held without trial by the regime for alleged dissident activity.

6.   Gao told the newspapers he suspected Chinese authorities arrested his mother because of his dissident activities.

7.   In recent months, more than a dozen dissidents have been given labor camp sentences, part of a tightening of government controls over dissident activity.

8.   It did not give any details, but the center is usually extremely well-informed about dissident activity.

9.   Liu works as a construction engineer for a Zhongshan municipal government company and had not previously been arrested for dissident activities, the Information Center said.

10.   State-run media, the only kind China has, ignores dissident activities.