"Human rights defenders are men and women who take individual or collective action to contribute to the elimination of all violations of the basic rights of peoples and individuals. This work includes the search for truth and justice; the fight for gender and racial equality; the protection of economic, social and cultural rights, and of the rights of indigenous peoples and the environment; and the fight against hunger, poverty and discrimination. Defenders work in diverse sectors of society and their work is inspired by and based on human rights standards."

This definition does far more than just eliminate those POCs who are imprisoned for their identity. This definition eliminates POCs who have committed courageous acts but whose work is not inspired by and based on human rights standards. Please note the real case I cited in the letter to Irene of a Moroccan editor, and this concern applies to any other writer imprisoned for what he writes, unless he/she is specifically writing on the topic of human rights.