re: #174 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

“Political opinions” is commonly interpreted to cover political actions related to your political beliefs, such as for example your belief that your government is committing human rights violations that need to be exposed in order to be stopped. Here is a similar example: theninthcircuit.com

Governments don’t usually care much what opinions citizens have unless or until they act on undesired political opinions in ways that inconvenience the government in some way. Then those actions are prosecuted or punished in some way that often sounds unrelated to the political issues that drove them. Do you think Guangchen was facing opinion charges? He was charged with “destruction of property and assembling a crowd to disrupt traffic.” washingtonpost.com