Sure if words don’t have meaning then there’s no difference here.

In Snowden’s case they knew that Snowden could not leave Russia, without being detained and potentially extradited. If Snowden was extradited he would be tried and go to prison, probably. Snowden of course shared state secrets, an act he knew was illegal.

The activist organized protests and his plane was hijacked without prior notice. And now he will likely be executed, for organizing peaceful protests.

Grow up.

> The activist organized protests

...an act that he knew was illegal, just like Snowden did.

There is no real difference, it's just that both of them pissed off powerful people while trying to do what is moral.

You think there’s no difference between non violent protest and sharing state secrets?!?!?

There is a fine tradition of protest by sharing information kept as secret to avoid public knowledge of government malfeasance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

> Grow up.

Your use of imperative tense implies a relationship that does not exist.

In both cases the knowledge of illegality was known.

There is no evidence that the activist faces capital punishment. The Guardian says the crimes as charged have a max of 15 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/belarus-divert...