My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners] as murderers, thieves, that sort of thing, which has a certain irony to it, I guess. It's a curious thing.
![My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the political prisoners were so resistant to being that. Always keeping [the other prisoners]](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/adam-braver/my-sense-and-im-sort-of-guessing-is-that-the-journalists-were-being-classified-by-the-government-as-common-criminals.jpg)