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San Francisco Chronicle - Thursday June 8, 1989
Randy Shilts, National Correspondent
Last Friday, U.S. immigration authorities at Logan International Airport in Boston detained Knud Josephson, a representative of the Danish government headed for the Montreal conference, after asking whether he was HIV-infected.
A British AIDS sufferer on his way to San Francisco to participate in a clinical trial of an AIDS drug was detained last week in Minneapolis, British homosexual organizer Simon Watney told a press conference yesterday.
Watney said the man returned to Britain after immigration authorities told him he would have to remain in prison for six weeks until a waiver could be processed to allow his entry.
In April, Hans Paul Verhoef, a Dutchman with AIDS, was imprisoned for six days in Minnesota before being released by an immigration judge, while on his way to San Francisco to participate in an AIDS conference.
After the controversy generated by that incident, the Justice Department announced that it will no longer bar HIV-infected visitors on their way to a medical conference or seeking AIDS treatments.
Under the new policy, HIV-infected visitors may be granted a 30-day waiver from the regulation that bans the entry of all such visitors. Josephson was granted a 30-day waiver but said at a news conference yesterday that he will have to cut short his seven-week tour of U.S. AIDS research centers.
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