english: Before now, if you wanted to be heard by your possibly tyrannical government, you were pushed to protest, suffer the consequences and have your fingers crossed that some Western paper somewhere might make someone care.
non_english: Als je vroeger wilde gehoord worden door je misschien tirannieke regering, was je gedwongen te protesteren, daarvan de gevolgen te dragen en stiekem te bidden dat een Westerse krant iemands belangstelling zou wekken.