I'm sure you can get killed for owning some BTC there.
With ease. For honest, you can get killed whenever you are, it only depends on sums. In poor countries it will be enough to hodl 1-2 btc, and in rich you need to be linked to much greater amount. For example, one of the richest and well developed countries - Norway. And there
was few incidents, one even with very bad final (
bitcoin investor was murdered)
So i will be better
more paranoid, but in the same time
more alive and with my assets

So which exchange could you recommend us (the royal us for sure)? Asking for a friend....

Something DEX based
For honest, i'm not selling btc even now, so i don't have need in exchange. DEX is enough to sell something like uniswap or 1inch airdrops.