A judge in Virginia ordered the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri on Wednesday, a post -doctoral fellow at the University of Georgetown who was arrested in March, after two months of detention in an immigration facility in Texas.
The order, issued by the bank by Judge Patricia Giles, was forced to navigate the courts throughout the country by a sea of legal challenges caused by the Trump government campaign to remove dozens of foreign academics from the United States.
Mr. Suri was one of different people who legally study in the United States, including Mahmoud Khalil” Mohsen Mahdawi” Rumeysa ozturk And Momodou LanguageOn whom the Trump administration focused on their pro-Palestinian activism, which raised in-depth legal questions about freedom of expression.
Mrs. Ozturk was released last week from detention as her case progresses.
On March 15, Minister of Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio stated that the presence of Mr Suri in the United States would have potentially serious consequences for foreign policy, “according to a sworn statement, an immigration office in Virginia submitted in the case of Mr Suri.
Two days later, Mr. Suri, an Indian subject, was arrested by masked immigration officials outside his house in Rosslyn, and brought through detention centers in Virginia, Louisiana and Texas. He received a hearing for an immigration court in Texas in May and spent the following months in the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado.
In April, the American Civil Liberties Union a video released of his arrest, which looked strongly like the spontaneous arrests of Mrs. Ozturk And Mr. Mahdawi By masked immigration agents.
In a statement in April, Mr Suri said that he “had never been to a protest” and The petition for his release submitted by his lawyers suggested That he was more likely because of his marriage to an American citizen of Palestinian descent who was investigated by conservative points of sale about the tires of her family with Hamas.
Mapheze Saleh, the wife of Mr Suri, is the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, a former adviser of Ismail HaniyehThe Hamas leader who killed Israel in Iran last year.
The petition of his lawyers stated that both he and his wife are subject to online intimidation about their speech to support Palestinians. Mrs. Saleh’s photo and a file about her work at Al Jazeera and her former social media reports published on a list published by The Canary MissionA shady group that says that his mission is to choose those who promote anti -Semitism. Proponents of civil rights have accused the group of Doxxing critics of Israel.
Several other academics who were the target of enforcement of immigration this year have also made their profiles appear on the Canary Mission, which described the complaint as an “anonymously runned Blacklisting site”.
Mr. Suri’s lawyers argued that he had been selected “based on his family ties and constitutionally protected speech.”
Mr. Suri, who was not accused of a crime, moved to the United States in 2022 and, according to the court reports, had given a course on minority rights in South Asia through his role in Georgetown.
After his arrest in March, another court of the court ruled That Mr Suri could not be removed from the United States before a court had the opportunity to weigh.
The decision was because other courts took a skeptical picture of the legal basis of the Trump government to keep foreign academics in detention about their ties with pro-Palestinian movements.
A federal court recently ordered Mr. Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University who had organized Pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, released on bail. Mr. Mahdawi, a green card holder who grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp on the West Bank, was on his way to an agreement to obtain the American citizenship in Vermont when he was taken into custody by immigration authorities.
A lawsuit for a judge in Massachusetts has tried to prohibit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Enforcement Bodies of the Ministry of Immigration to direct foreign students because of their speech or activism in general.
Last week, the judge in that case a request rejected By the government to reject that lawsuit, and found that the ‘new first change issues’ called on the consideration.
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