Number 10 confirms Erkin Tuniyaz will visit the Foreign Office, leading to fierce criticism for engaging with the politician who runs the Xinjiang province - where Uyghur Muslims are being persecuted - from both Iain Duncan Smith of the Conservatives and Chris Bryant from Labour.
Writing a joint article in The Times, the two politicians - who have both been sanctioned by Beijing for supposedly"spreading lies" about the Chinese government - accused Mr Tuniyaz of being"determined to eradicate" the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and being responsible for the"brutal and deathly implementation" of policies, including forced sterilisation, internment and slavery.
They said the meeting"sells out British values", adding:"Tuniyaz will learn nothing from a slap on the wrist from diplomats, Beijing doesn't care. "This visit is set to be a propaganda coup - an effort by China to normalise engagement with Beijing's apparatchiks. The Foreign Office has naively blundered into the trap."Sky News investigates the shadowy world of spies and thugs created by China's long reach
The MPs asked the government to consider how it must feel for Uyghurs in Britain to see the man responsible for the"sterilisation and enslavement of their loved ones" to be able to"roam London freely". "If the government still believes that Tuniyaz was responsible for torture, the only meeting he ought to be having should be with the Met Police's War Crimes Unit, the competent authority to investigate Tuniyaz's crimes," they added.
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