Erkin Tuniyaz: Chinese official cancels controversial UK visit

A Chinese Communist Party authoritative accused of overseeing quality rights abuses has cancelled a sojourn to the UK.

The elder fig is politician of China's north-western Xinjiang province.

In 2021, MPs approved a non-binding Commons question which declared Uyghur Muslims and different minorities successful Xinjiang were "suffering crimes against humanity and genocide".

A Foreign Office spokesperson said they understood Mr Tuniyaz had pulled retired of the trip.

The authorities insists it did not invitation him and that helium would not person been granted an assemblage with a minister.

"The UK authorities volition proceed to usage each opportunities to instrumentality enactment against China's unacceptable quality rights abuses successful Xinjiang," a Foreign Office spokesperson said successful a statement.

China has been accused of systematic quality rights abuses against the Muslim minority, wherever hundreds of thousands person been detained successful camps.

The United Nations has accused China of "serious quality rights violations" and imaginable crimes against humanity successful Xinjiang.