He commands a passionate radical following and has confronted governments before.

他拥有一批狂热的激进派追随者，并曾与政府发生冲突。

And by meeting their death so bravely they commanded an enormous following, also after they had died.

而由于他们如此从容就义，所以吸引了许多徒众追随，即使在他们死后仍然如此。