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US President Donald Trump's administration has detained an Indian man studying at Washington's Georgetown University and is seeking to deport him after deeming him a harm to US foreign policy, the student's lawyer said on Wednesday. The US Department of Homeland Security accused Badar Khan Suri of ties to Hamas and claimed that he had spread Hamas propaganda and antisemitism on social media, according to a statement it shared with Fox News. The statement did not cite evidence for its claims against Suri, who is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s...

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(CNN) — A Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow has been detained by the Department of Homeland Security, the university said Wednesday, as the Trump administration continues its immigration clampdown. In a letter obtained by CNN, Georgetown University Interim President Robert Groves told its Board of Directors that Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national who was on a visa “to continue his doctoral research on peace building in Iraq and Afghanistan,” has been detained by DHS and his visa has been revoked. “We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal...

A professor at Georgetown University was detained by federal immigration agents on Monday night, multiple sources report. Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at the university’s School of Service and professor of a majoritarianism and minority rights in Southern Asia course at the school’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, was granted a visa to legally continue his studies in the U.S., the university told WTOP in a statement. Khan Suri is an Indian national and completed his doctorate in New Delhi in 2020, according to his staff bio. Tricia McLaughlin, a...

Federal immigration authorities on Monday night detained a Georgetown University fellow legally in the United States on a student visa, according to the researcher’s lawyer, who promptly filed a lawsuit petitioning for his immediate release. Indian national Badar Khan Suri was detained outside his home in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, by agents who identified themselves as immigration officers, his attorney Hassan Ahmad told The Washington Post.

Federal immigration agents detained a Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow March 17, seeking to deport him and accusing him of opposing U.S. foreign policy. The researcher, Badar Khan Suri of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), is an Indian citizen in the United States legally on a student visa. His arrest comes amid a broader crackdown by the administration of President Donald Trump on student organizers with links to pro-Palestinian activism; Khan Suri’s wife, a U.S.