Until the beginning of this year, they have not formed significant or open opposition movements, owing to a historically well-entrenched fear of repression.
You were the leader of a successful open-workspace opposition movement (a.k.a. forwarded around a lot of Times articles about how an open workspace leads to more distractions and lower productivity).
Among Rouhani's advisers are several key figures from the 2009 opposition movement, opening his young presidency up to some criticism.
At a recent international football match, when fans gave the open-handed salute of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the police fired tear-gas canisters around the packed stadium.
In late 2011 and early 2012, when a large-scale opposition movement broke out into the open in Moscow, it gave Kosenko a chance to take part in something, to be among like-minded people and express his political ideas.
After all, in Egypt, the best organised, biggest opposition movement is - despite being banned from open political activity - the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a statement, the opposition movement said it would partially re-open the street to traffic.
Aden has become a bastion of open opposition to the government, with the flag of the independence movement — once rigidly banned — now flying from houses across the city.
Because expressions of free charisma were increasingly suppressed in the institutional churches, the emergence of Pentecostal movements outside the institutional churches and partly in open opposition to them arose.
A12 Belarus Sets Vote for Leader The Parliament in Belarus voted to hold the country's next presidential election in March, opening an accelerated campaign between the country's authoritarian leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, and a beleaguered opposition movement.
