The U.S. government has many political prisoners, including journalists; national security state whistleblowers; Black, Indigenous, and Latino revolutionaries; foreign diplomats; Muslims detained without trial; women who defended themselves from attacks; and environmental activists.
These don’t count, silly.
When the US does it, each case is an individual, isolated, aberrant deviation from the norm, indicative of no pattern.
When “authoritarian” states do it, that’s completely different. Each of those cases is indicative of the malevolent norm.