After last year's suicide-bomb attacks, Mr Arafat used ferocious methods--rightly criticised by human-rights monitors--to haul Islamist and other dissidents into line.
If this new commitment to save endangered whale populations is to be effective, the United States, Britain, Germany and other influential members -- all of which supported the new initiative -- must use their influence to bring the Japanese and other environmentally destructive dissidents into line.
"It should mean that you have the power of attraction, and China's been very bad at that," he said, citing its lack of transparency, harsh treatment of dissidents, hard-line stance over claims in the South China Sea and food safety scandals.
"The game is up," said Jeffrey Donaldson, a hard-line dissident whose challenge to Mr. Trimble during the three-hour closed session forced the leader to toughen his own approach.
In an interview this week, Ms. Tymoshenko, 50, said she was girding herself for prison, bracing for a new role as a post-Soviet dissident along the lines of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former oil company executive serving a 16-year sentence in Russia for fraud.
Hussein Ali Montazeri, a dissident cleric once in line to be Iran's supreme leader, startled Iranian officials this week by putting a memoir on the Internet.
Behind the main memorial, which was completed in time for the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, is the Rotunda Maternity Hospital which, it is assumed, will also have to be taken over by the Garda in order to keep the Queen and the Duke safe from any line of dissident fire.
(Reuters) IRAN: DISSIDENT JAILED A hard-line court ordered a leading dissident imprisoned, continuing its crackdown on journalists and reformists demanding greater freedoms.
John Kamm, a veteran American human rights campaigner, said that during three decades working in China he had rarely seen such a hard line toward dissidents — and unbridled defiance against pressure from abroad.
But Jeffrey Donaldson, the most prominent hard-line unionist dissident, made it clear that he would challenge any attempt by Mr. Trimble to take the party back into government based on today's statement.
