Harvard freshman from Palestine was denied for US entry

Washington: A Palestinian teenager admitted to Harvard University says he has been denied entry to the US after immigration officials objected to his friends’ social media posts. Ismail Ajjawi, a 17-year-old refugee living in Lebanon, said he was questioned for hours after arriving at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night and was sent back. Ajjawi, who was awarded the New Hope Fund undergraduate scholarship by US non-profit Amideast, said his visa was canceled after immigration officials searched his phone and laptop, and confronted him about his friends’ social media posts sharing their political views that oppose the US. Despite his protests that he had nothing to do with the posts, he was found “inadmissible” to the US, media reports said. Ajjawi intended to study Chemical and Physical Biology at the university. (IANS)

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