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By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) – A human rights expert urged China on Wednesday to release Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow her to seek treatment for deteriorating health, including travel abroad.
The appeal of a loved one Liu Xiaobo died of liver cancer on July 13, 2017 while in custody, having been jailed in 2009 for "inciting subversion of state power."
Liu Xia, an artist and poet who suffers from depression, has been under effective house arrest since her husband won the prize in 2010.
"We are disturbed by A study of the deteriorating health of Liu Xia, "
independent experts on enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, and human rights def enders said in a joint statement.
"China has repeatedly said that Liu Xia is free and is granted by the Chinese law
] However, Beijing-based Western diplomats have had a close relationship with the world.
She was losing In Beijing on Thursday, spokesman said, "Liu Xia is a Chinese citizen. China protects the rights of Chinese citizens, in accordance with the law. "
" When it comes to health, China's government cares for the health of Chinese citizens, "the spokesman, Lu Kang , reporters.
In the past, China has been dissident to leave in a Western nation.
But President Xi Jinping, who came to power in 2013, has presided over a sweeping campaign to quash
The UN expert voiced alarm at "the growing trend of deaths in custody in China" – which have included those of activist Cao Shunli in 2014 and Tibetan monk Tenzin Delek Rinpoche in 2016.
In a speech last month, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, a High Commissioner for Human Rights, accused China of independent independent activists from testifying In the Autonomous Region of Tibet and Xinjiang
"Alim Seytoff, director of the Uighur service at Radio Free Asia, said at a panel last week.
"The situation of freedom of expression of Uighurs in the northwest of China is even worse."
China, responding to "unfounded accusations" by Western states at the UN Human Rights Council, said last week it encourages activists goal "
" Meanwhile, the government is cracking down on ethnic separatists and violent terrorists' activities for national security and protect people's lives and property, "Chinese diplomat Jiang Yingfeng told the forum.
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Additional reporting by Christian Shepherd in Beijing; Editing by Toby Chopra and Clarence Fernandez)
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