NEW YORK—Persecuted by the Chinese regime for their faith, Yang Chunhua’s family of four was torn apart, tormented, and brutalized. Both her sister and her mother died from injuries and illnesses caused by the torture they were subjected to while imprisoned in China. Yang’s older sister Chunling, a translator, was part of an eight-person team—that included her sister-in-law, a middle-school teacher—who hijacked a Chinese television broadcast in September 2005 to air a film about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) violent rule over the country. Within weeks, Chinese police arrested and handed heavy sentences to all of them. In April 2014, more than a year after being released from prison, Yang’s sister was found dead in a rented apartment. She had died alone on her 40th birthday. Yang recalled her aged father, Yang Zonghui, breaking the news to her over the phone. “Your sister’s gone,” he said. Her body was stiff …