ACTOR Charlie Sheen’s speaking tour has been criticised by the husband of murdered Melbourne woman Jill Meagher amid renewed debate on domestic violence.

Tom Meagher questioned the message it sent allowing the former Two and a Half Men star to appear on stage at shows in Melbourne and Sydney.

It follows a campaign by activist group Collective Shout calling on the federal government to revoke Sheen’s visa due to his previous convictions for violence against women.

Mr Meagher shared his concerns on Twitter, where he labelled Sheen a “violent criminal” and “a dangerous creep”.

In a message to Immigration Minister David Coleman, Mr Meagher wrote: “Can I ask why you think it’s appropriate to grant a visa to this violent criminal at a time when men are murdering women in Australia at epidemic rates and thousands more are terrorised everyday by men like him?”

Mr Meagher has been a leading voice calling for an end to domestic violence.

His wife Jill was raped and killed in 2012 while walking to her home in Brunswick.

In this tweets, Mr Meagher said he did not believe Sheen should be given a platform to speak “unchallenged”.

“Charlie Sheen is seeking character rehabilitation in Australia during a national crisis where more than one woman a week is murdered by a man,” he wrote.

The show, An Evening with Charlie Sheen hosted by Richard Wilkins, is on in Melbourne and Sydney this weekend and billed as “a truly unique opportunity to get up close and personal with Hollywood Royalty”.

Publicity for the show has suggested nothing will be off limits and Sheen will discuss his turbulent career, sex, booze, drugs and living with HIV.