“The United Airlines staff knew he had been denied entry to the US before any of us,” the Sex party MP Fiona Patten told AAP from Denver on Friday. “He was incredibly upset ... disbelieving.”Patten said Eideh was not told why he wasn’t allowed on the plane. Liberal MP Martin Dixon, Labor MP Geoff Howard and Victoria police assistant commissioner Rick Nugent are also on the study trip. Every MP on the trip had been issued with official passports and visas weeks before the trip. The US embassy in Canberra has been contacted to ask why Eideh was not allowed to board the flight.

Source: The Guardian July 28, 2017 03:20 UTC