The phrase "dissident against" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who openly opposes a particular policy, idea, or system. For example, "John is a dissident against the government's plan to build a new highway."
He was a dissident against a regime that no one cared about.
He had been a dissident against Castro in the early 1960s.
His father, Jaballah Matar, was a leading dissident against Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship.
Fela was the leading dissident against Nigeria's military governments of the 1970s and '80s, and for periods of time lived in a commune he called the Kalakuta Republic.
And, clearly, Mo Yan has not made the right choice, which is to range himself as an outspoken "dissident" against his country's authoritarian regime.
African leaders have often deflected questions about their lack of accountability by turning up anti-western rhetoric while using pre-independence sedition laws designed to crush any dissident against colonial masters.
"We were dissidents against our will," he said.
The war, which pits a motley mix of non-Muslim southern secessionists and Muslim northern dissidents against the government in Khartoum, seems to be spreading.
Another potential plan, involving action by Afghan dissidents against the country's militant Islamic Taliban rulers, ran into difficulty almost as soon as it was publicly discussed.
The news release on the Yale historian Jonathan D. Spence's "Treason by the Book" states that it is about a rebellion mounted by scholarly dissidents against the rule of a powerful early-18th-century Chinese emperor.
Tiefensee, 48, made his name in East Germany during the 1989 "peaceful revolution," when he and other dissidents against communism gathered at St . Nikolai Churchin Leipzig for prayer vigils and "Dona Nobis Pacem" became their anthem for change.
