About two decades ago, Zhang Rongjuan, an adherent of the meditation practice Falun Gong, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for taking part in the interception of a local television network’s broadcast and instead showing a video exposing the Chinese regime’s persecution of the spiritual group. Now, as the sentence is about to expire, prison guards have abruptly added two more years to her sentence. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a meditation discipline with moral teachings centered on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. By the late 1990s, up to 100 million people in China were practicing Falun Gong, according to official estimates at the time. With nearly one in every 13 Chinese people practicing, then-Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin considered the group’s enormous popularity a threat to the Party’s rule. On July 20, 1999, Jiang initiated a nationwide campaign to round up adherents and throw them …