Now I know who my comrades are

Emily Parker, a State Department policymaker with years of on-the-ground experience, tells the stories of dissidents.

Chinese surveillance is sleek and invisible, while a Cuban Internet dissident might find a security agent sitting at the next table in a café.

The Russian Internet is largely uncensored, yet bloggers who cross the line risk beatings, even death.

In these countries, growing communities expose injustices, threatening governments that use fear as a tool of repression.