An Interior Ministry official told the Daily Mail that Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, failed to "meet the conditions necessary for entering Spain." The official would not discuss the basis for that ruling, the British newspaper said.

The younger bin Laden, a self-declared pacifist, has 24 hours to appeal and remains at Madrid's Barajas Airport, where he arrived from Egypt Monday.

Spain is the second country to reject bin Laden in recent months. Britain denied him a visa seven months ago when he asked to be allowed to live there with his British wife, Jane Felix-Browne, now known as Zaina Alsabah-bin Laden.