Taiwan will not allow exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer to visit the island as proposed in December, a government official said on Friday, a move likely to please Beijing but upset anti-China factions at home.

Kadeer, a former businesswoman who now leads the exile group World Uyghur Congress (WUC), wanted to visit in December at the invitation of an entertainer close to Taiwan's anti-China opposition Democratic Progressive Party.
 

Kadeer is accused by Beijing of inciting violence in northwestern China's Xinjiang region.
 

Asked by legislators on Friday, Taiwan interior Minister Chiang Yih-hwa said the government had confirmed it would not allow the visit.

Source: Reuters