Civilized societies don't throw people in prison merely for holding and expressing unpopular opinions or beliefs.
Its a bit more than "unpopular". Why do you use weasel words to excuse wickedness ?
No
“weasel words”[ needed or relevant. What is happening here is very simple and obvious. The right to believe what one will, and to appropriately express one's beliefs—no matter how disagreeable someone else may find those beliefs—is one of the most essential and basic of all human rights.
That your nation would so brutally stomp on this right, and that you would defend this abuse, only goes to show how depraved you, as an individual, and as a nation, are.
This is exactly the sort of crap against which my ancestors were rebelling when we went to war in 1776.
Tragically, your nation has not yet reached the level of advancement and civilization that we were at two hundred years ago.