Iranian scientist traveling to Boston for cancer research is detained
Boston Children’s Hospital says it is “doing its utmost” to support the researcher, Mohsen Dehnavi, and hopes he is released soon.
An Iranian cancer researcher traveling to the U.S. to work as a visiting scholar at Boston Children’s Hospital has been detained with his wife and three children at Boston Logan International Airport.
The researcher, Mohsen Dehnavi, holds a visiting work visa that was issued in May. His detainment comes that the Trump administration could largely enforce an executive order that would ban people from six Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, from entering the U.S. The court also ruled that the ban couldn’t apply to visitors who already held valid visas.
