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Police have also been dealing with the severe dissident republican risk, unrest surrounding loyal order parades and planning for major events such as the UK City of Culture in Derry and World Police and Fire Games in Belfast later this year.

China has launched the most severe crackdown on dissidents and activists for more than a decade, human rights campaigners have warned.

Several leading dissidents are serving time there.

Assistant Chief Constable Alistair Finlay also said the dissident threat "remains severe".

However, on the same day the Home Office said the threat level in Northern Ireland remained "severe" with an attack by dissident republicans still regarded as highly likely.

In March 2009, the BBC revealed that MI5 had increased the official threat assessment level posed by dissident groups to severe, meaning an attack was regarded as "highly likely", whereas previously an attack had been regarded as "a strong possibility".

At least some of those apprehended, Mr. Garcia and other Cuban-Americans say, are dissidents who risk severe punishment if they are sent home.

The executions, which followed the arrests of 75 dissidents in the most severe political repression in Cuba in decades, prompted an outpouring of criticism worldwide and lost Mr. Castro some close friends among left-wing intellectuals.

After the surrender of Japan and the cessation of hostilities, the Navy was no longer able to justify such severe sentences as a warning to other potentially dissident servicemen and labor battalions.

The current threat level against members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) from dissident republican paramilitaries has been classified as "severe".

There is a "severe" threat of terrorist attacks on police in Northern Ireland by dissident republican groups, a higher level than MI5's warning last week of a "substantial" risk of a New IRA bomb in Britain, the Observer has learned.