I've worked on a number of different cases of people who have become prisoners of conscience, and not all of them are human rights defenders.
Let's start with Sergei Magnitsky, for example. Sergei Magnitsky was a tax lawyer who uncovered a massive government tax scam and exposed it. They wanted him to retract his testimony against corrupt officers. They wanted him to bear false witness against me and others. He wasn't a human rights lawyer. He wasn't an activist. He wasn't even a politician. He was a prisoner of conscience because he wanted to do the right thing. He was killed for that. He wouldn't be captured under this government's definition.
You can look at Jimmy Lai. He is a newspaper publisher who just wanted to publish his newspaper and tell the truth. He wanted to free Hong Kong. He wasn't a human rights defender, but he's now imprisoned and he's a prisoner of conscience.
I want to react, if I could, for two seconds to the previous comment that was made about how it could be a bad thing to raise these issues and call someone a prisoner of conscience. I can tell you that in 100% of the cases, it's a good thing for governments to name and shame, to label authoritarian regimes as acting out badly and arresting people who shouldn't be arrested, and to name prisoners of conscience. It's never a bad thing. It's always a bad thing to keep these things quiet and to do quiet diplomacy. It's a typical foreign ministry thing to say, “Let's just keep this really quiet.” Nobody who's a victim of this wants that to happen, and keeping it quiet never helps them.