(Minghui.org) Ms. Liu Mingyuan, a computer animation student at Sheridan College, held a press conference in front of the Chinese Consulate in Toronto on February 18, 2022. She called for the immediate release of her mother, who is detained in China for her faith, Falun Dafa.

Her mother, Ms. Liu Yan, was arrested in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China on September 30, 2021 for practicing Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1999.

Ms. Liu’s father recently received a court summons in China, which informed him that Ms. Liu Yan would face a court hearing on February 25, 2022. So Ms. Liu organised the press conference to call on the Party to stop its 23-year-long persecution of Falun Dafa and to immediately release her mother.

Rescue Effort Draws Attention and Support

Ms. Liu Yan was the former director and associate professor of the Foreign Language Department of Yunnan University of Arts and Sciences. She was arrested by the CCP authorities on September 30, 2021, for practicing Falun Dafa.

Ms. Liu Yan has been detained in the Kunming City Detention Centre by the Wuhua District Domestic Security Division. Her family members and lawyers have not been allowed to visit her.

Last October, Ms. Liu Mingyuan launched an effort in Canada to rescue her mother in China, which has drawn the attention of many sectors of Canadian society.

Mingyuan announced at the press conference: “Since I stood up and spoke out to rescue my mother, I have felt the sympathy of the international community for Falun Gong practitioners and the condemnation of this persecution. People have all learned that Falun Gong practitioners are a group of kind people, but suffered groundless persecution and slander in China.”

In the past four months, Mingyuan has received help and solidarity from parliamentarians, media, professors, and her school. She said, “I have received support from many Canadian people who wrote letters to the Canadian Prime Minister, urging the Canadian government to take action against the human rights persecution in China and call for the immediate release of my mother.”

“This persecution has been going on for nearly 23 years,” Mingyuan said, “The persecution has caused tens of thousands of tragedies due to imprisonment and death of innocent people. Countless happy families have been destroyed.”

Mingyuan concluded by saying that for the past 23 years, Falun Gong practitioners have been persistently clarifying the truth to the world in a peaceful and rational way to stop the persecution. She appealed to the Chinese government to immediately end the oppression of this peaceful group, to stop persecuting its own people, and to release her mother without condition.

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