Following his arrest as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists on college campuses, Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri was released from a Texas jail facility.
Mr. Suri, a postdoctoral researcher on a student visa at the esteemed Washington, DC, university, was ordered to be released by a federal judge.On March 17, immigration officers detained an Indian national outside his Virginia house.
According to his solicitors, he was singled out “for speech in support of Palestinian rights and family ties to Gaza”. Both “spreading Hamas propaganda” and having “connections to a known or suspected terrorist” are charges against him by US officials.
The Justice Department said that the government was entitled to hold him until the conclusion of the legal process. But on Wednesday, US District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles declared that his imprisonment was an infringement on his right to due process and free expression.
Through his wife Mapheze Saleh, a US citizen whose father was a government official in Gaza, she denied the government’s allegations that he had connections to Hamas. The BBC’s US partner CBS News reported that the judge stated, “There was no evidence submitted to this court regarding statements that he made in favour of Hamas.
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