An award-winning young digital animation student whose family has suffered spiritual persecution for decades in China arrived in Canada in August 2020 to avoid harassment and secure her future. But nearly a year later, she learned her mother was, once again, placed in detention. This is her story. The talented 24-year-old student at world-renowned Sheridan College in Ontario—who at the age of 4 was taken away as a hostage by Chinese police in an attempt to arrest her parents—is now speaking out to seek an immediate release of her mother facing persecution for upholding her spiritual faith. Lucy Mingyuan Liu, whose father is an accomplished artist and mother a former dean at a Chinese university, is gifted in traditional 2D painting. She ventured into full 3D digital animation recently, making a huge splash in her first year at Sheridan—a campus where Disney and Pixar spot top talent to fill their …