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The case of Rebiya Kadeer, who was sentenced last week, will come up at a meeting between junior foreign minister John Battle and visiting Chinese deputy foreign minister Yang Jiechi.
"I will call upon the Chinese authorities to urgently review the case of Rebiya Kadeer in the light of her harsh sentence on March 10," Battle said in a short statement.
A Foreign Office spokesman said the meeting was routine, but that Battle had decided to bring up her case after confirmation from the British Embassy in Beijing of Kadeer's sentence.
The spokesman said her name had also been brought up during the visit to Britain last October by Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and again in bilateral human rights discussions in February.
A court in Urumqi, capital of China's far northwest Xinjiang province, convicted Kadeer last Thursday of "ignoring the law of the country and giving information to separatists outside the borders," the New York-based Human Rights Watch said.
A regional official who refused to identify himself confirmed that Kadeer had been sentenced.
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