What should he apologize for?
"I'm sorry for telling the truth."?
"I'm sorry for telling the truth."?
You seem to really want him to repent for something. What is it?
I'm pretty sure that being fired - having pitchfork crowds go after you and people who agree - is close enough to being silenced.
Showing up to a photo shoot in a Goolag shirt also just undermines him as a person. It's totally hyperbolic and ridiculous and will further discredit him in other people's minds because it's an insane overreaction to make that comparison.
Maybe there's way too much socially driven discrimination right now to jump to conclusions about him being "right"?