The phrase "a dissident of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who opposes or disagrees with a particular system, organization, or ideology.
Example: "As a dissident of the regime, she faced constant scrutiny and persecution for her beliefs."
Alternatives: "an opponent of" or "a critic of".
To his chagrin, Roaring Virile Fire had become a dissident of sorts when he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for joining clubs that promoted partner-swapping and group sex.
When the new government set him free in 1991, he had options: to cash in on his life as a dissident of the old government, or to speak up against a new one that he said was itself authoritarian.
But it is hard to imagine that, even if China had not threatened to punish nations supporting Mr. Liu's prize, many among this assembly of autocrats would have been comfortable lauding a dissident of such potent stature as Mr. Liu — the very emblem of their own worst nightmares.
Indeed, the only optimist I could find in Warsaw was a man who has always been a dissident of one sort or another: Adam Michnik, the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, the legendary newspaper of the Solidarity movement, once published by mimeograph and now the most popular newspaper in Poland.
Kadare's "chest-pounding" in his acceptance speech was, Dumitrascu wrote, "like Condoleezza Rice claiming 20 years from now that she was a dissident of the Bush regime because she got a tattoo of a crescent moon on her left butt cheek" (that would be a speech worth witnessing).
The coverup, such as it was, was not the result of any coördinated government campaign but a freelance effort enabled by the good intentions of colleagues and friends whose own experiences with Rogers made it hard to conceive of him as a dissident of any kind.
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Four years later, he ran as the presidential candidate of a dissident group of Southern Democrats, but lost the election to the Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln.
(2) Zhang Zhixin (张志新, 1930-1975) was a dissident member of the Communist Party of China who criticized Mao Zedong and the ultra-left during the Cultural Revolution.
A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics.
On the death of Louis a few months later, Theobald joined a dissident league of barons who opposed Louis's widow and regent of France, Blanche of Castile.
