Showing posts with label Sheridan College. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sheridan College. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10

Chinese Student in Canada


There’s a reason why Americans are tuning out of the Beijing Olympics in record numbers—with a poll last month showing 40 percent of adults oppose holding the games in China

Just as there are reasons why some Republicans are calling for a full boycott—athletes and all—of the iconic games. There are reasons why some athletes are decrying being silenced from speaking their hearts and minds in Beijing.

Often cited are the horrific human rights abuses taking place in a country with zero freedom. Cited are the Uyghurs enduring slave labor, torture, and sometimes murder. Cited is the poverty pervading the majority of Chinese people. 

Cited is the disappearance of a woman tennis player who dared to speak out about a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) official who sexually assaulted her.

And cited was the CCP virus that infected the world.

But one visa student from China, now living in freedom-loving Canada, who fled the CCP’s tyrannical regime in fear of being persecuted for her spiritual belief, Falun Gong, has done more than tuning out of the Olympics.

Digital animation prodigy at world-renowned Sheridan College, 25-year-old Lucy Liu shared her plight in an open letter to the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in collaboration with her student union, who are supporting her.  READ MORE...