His love of freedom led him to join the Carbonari, a secret society pledged to overthrow absolute rule in Italy.
During World War I, Indian nationalists took advantage of Great Britain's preoccupation with the European war by attempting to foment revolution in India to overthrow British rule.
The twin revolts, even if never really threatening to overthrow German rule, induced a small wave of panic back in Berlin.
It has taken centuries of wars, revolutions and religious upheavals for Western society to overthrow sovereign rule and evolve to our current democratic system.
A PAC military organization, Poqo (Xhosa: "Pure"), was formed, the aim of which was to overthrow white rule in South Africa by violence.
By 1794 he and his United Irishmen friends began to seek armed aid from Revolutionary France to help overthrow English rule.
Mr. Bastehnegar and 20 others close to religious groups were arrested in March on vague charges of plotting to overthrow Islamic rule.
Like Nelson Mandela, he was imprisoned on Robben Island for conspiring to overthrow white rule, spending 10 years in jail before going into exile.
The attacks have been blamed on extremists from Xinjiang's native Turkic-speaking Uighur population, who are inspired by jihadi ideology and seek to overthrow Chinese rule.
Asked what the money was for, two members of the group said jihad in Kashmir, where Islamic guerrillas are fighting to overthrow Indian rule.
"Their goal is pretty simple: They want to overthrow the rule of the Communist Party," said Hong Xiuhua, 50, a retired local party official.
