An American tourist was just imprisoned there for taking a flag off the wall and died: https://tinyurl.com/y57ytdld
He knew the risk going there. He knew how harsh they are on criminals. He knew what he was doing was a crime. Yet he still did it. No sympathy.
"They're not a brutal, murderous dictatorship! They just torture people to death for extremely minor violations of their arbitrary rules!"
Not much difference between torturing someone to death for two years for stealing a poster than there is keeping a black kid in jail for life because he had a bit of weed on him.