Wellington  - The New Zealand government has issued a visitor's visa to exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, but Auckland University has banned her from speaking on campus, according to news reports Friday.

Kadeer is due to arrive Monday for a four-day visit to talk about the plight of the Uighur people in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang province, whom she claims are oppressed by the Beijing government.

China has dubbed her a terrorist, and she has lived in exile in the United States since finishing a prison sentence in 2005.

Auckland University has banned Kadeer from speaking on campus Tuesday.

Registrar Tim Greville said: "The university is not in a position to provide the appropriate levels of support and security for the range of people expected to attend this meeting."

News reports say local Chinese loyal to Beijing were expected to attend the meeting and oppose Kadeer's claims of oppression.

Nearly 200 people died in violent clashes between Uighur's and ethnic Chinese in July in the north-western province.

Keith Locke, a Green Party member of parliament who is sponsoring Kadeer's visit, claimed that the university had barred Kadeer for fear of offending the Chinese government, the New Herald reported.

Her Auckland meeting has been switched to another venue in the city. Kadeer is scheduled to speak at a meeting in a church hall on Wednesday in Wellington.  dpa