China delegation barred from Queen's lying in state at Westminster
, who is currently meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin at a summit in Uzbekistan, is not expected to attend Monday's funeral at Westminster Abbey.Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerA number of the MPs and peers sanctioned, including Tory former ministers Iain Duncan Smith and Tim Loughton, have raised concerns about the Chinese government being invited to the funeral.
"Given that the United Kingdom parliament has voted to recognise the genocide committed by the Chinese government against the Uighur people it is extraordinary that the architects of that genocide should be treated in any more favourable way than those countries who have been barred."
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