The UK refuses entry to an armless artist over missing fingerprints.
Karipbek Kuyukov, an armless artist, was hoping to attend an anti-nuclear conference in Edinburgh. Unfortunately, he was denied entry into the UK because he didn’t provide fingerprints with his visa application.
The Instanbul branch of the British Consulate requested he resubmit his application on the grounds of poor biometrics.
The UK Home Office said the matter may have been a miscommunication.
Nonetheless, the man had to cancel his conference registration.
Kuyukov was born about 60 miles from the city of Semipalatinsk, an active nuclear weapons testing ground in the former Soviet Union. Thousands of children birthed in the area were born with disabilities.
He uses his art as a means of campaigning for nuclear disarmament.
He is also an honorary ambassador for the ATOM Project, an organization whose mission is to stop nuclear testing.
In the past his involvement with anti-nuclear activism has taken him to Nevada, Germany, Japan, and Turkey.
One of his paintings was given as a gift to the president of Kuyukov’s home country, Kazahkstan.