Many people believe death is the greatest punishment that can be inflicted on a person. But there may be something even more terrifying: being stripped of one’s mental faculties and humanity, unable either to live normally or to die, and reduced to what the Chinese call one of the “living dead.”

That is the disturbing picture presented in a purported final letter attributed to Zhong Shaojun, a former senior aide to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

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