China 🇨🇳 accused in Liu Xiaobo's widow's missing

Chinese 🇨🇳 government is responsible for the "enforced disappearance" of Liu Xia, the widow of late Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, her US-based 🇺🇸 lawyer said in a formal complaint filed 📁 with the UN.

Liu Xia "held incommunicado 🚫 in an unknown location by Chinese 🇨🇳 government authorities" since July 15, the day of her husband's funeral, her lawyer, Jared Genser, said in statement.

China 🇨🇳 faced a global backlash for its treatment of Liu Xiaobo when he died of liver cancer last month, making him the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to die in custody since 1938 when German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky died while being held by the Nazis‼️

The UN working group did not acknowledge 🚫 the receipt of Genser's complaint, but told AFP news agency that generally speaking, its process of issuing an "opinion" on the matter was a lengthy one that could take years.

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