South Africa: HSRC's Habib Denied U.S. Entry

Prominent academic Prof Adam Habib was last week denied entry into the US at New York's John F Kennedy airport. He told Business Day yesterday (24 October 2006) that he was still mystified as to why he had been refused entry into the US last Friday. Habib, who is executive director of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) democracy and governance research programme and a political commentator, said he was at the airport for about 10 hours before being escorted by an armed guard on to a return flight to SA.