No, they are not. You have obviously never watched a Chinese prisoner have to apologize to a judge, the police, the community, parents/family before. Chinese television regularly shows political dissenters strapped into a chair with metal wings enfolded on him, after obvious abuse meekly beg forgiveness for twenty minutes for all the ways he shames everyone in china and then get an absurdly long sentence and profusely thanking the judge with tears in the eyes for leniency for "only" being sentenced to hard labor for five years for calling Xi winne the pooh. Watch a few of the videos before you say such a stupid thing.