Plenty of political prisoners fit the bill. Here's one guy who spent 23 years in prison in Singapore because he refused to sign a statement renouncing violence

Plenty of political prisoners fit the bill. Here's one guy who spent 23 years in prison in Singapore because he refused to sign a statement renouncing violence -- not being he likes violence, but because that would have implied he supported violence earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_Thye_Poh On release into house arrest, he refused a government job because that would have "muzzled" him. 32 years aftert his initial arrest, all restrictions were finally lifted -- and the first thing he did was call for the abolition of the act used to arrest him. Also Mandela, Gandhi, etc.