What about when someone is imprisoned for keeping Torah and mitzvot?

Imprisonment for observing Torah and mitzvot represents the highest level of mesirut nefesh—self-sacrifice for Hashem—a truth exemplified throughout Jewish history. The Ramchal, beaten and publicly humiliated for teaching Torah, persevered. Rabbi Akiva, imprisoned for public Torah instruction, chose starvation over violating even a rabbinical mitzvah. More recently, Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber kept the entire Torah in deadly Siberian jails, risking his life for mitzvot. Many rabbis similarly defied brutal conditions, making tzitzit in confinement, enduring slave labor, and facing the death penalty for Shabbat. As Papus ben Yehuda told Rabbi Akiva in jail, "Fortunate are you, Rabbi Akiva, for you were apprehended on account of the words of Torah," underscoring that such sacrifice is profoundly praiseworthy.