The aunt of a North Korean woman reportedly in a Chinese detention center has filed an urgent appeal to a U.N. working group to prevent her repatriation to the DPRK.

Thirty-six-year-old Kim Sun-hyang, a mother of two, has been held in a Chinese prison since May 2022 and has recently been transferred to a facility known to be a last stop before repatriation to North Korea, the appeal provided to NK News states.

The appeal to the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances marks the first time that one of the thousands of North Koreansthought to be