In 2018, Lu Kaili was released from a 13-year prison sentence a changed man. An accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, while years of torture at the hands of prison guards had weakened his entire body. All this because in 2005, the former construction engineer helped hijack a Chinese cable television broadcast to play a documentary exposing the communist regime’s history of murder and deceit. Lu’s condition has meant that he’s had to rely on family in northeastern China’s Liaoning Province for many of his everyday activities. About a month ago, Lu’s wife Sun Yan came home in the evening to find that Lu, 57, had vanished. Sun asked around for an entire day before learning that police had raided their home while she was away and took her husband to a detention center. When Lu’s family went to the center, they saw a police car rushing out …