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| Georgetown University student, whose father-in-law worked with Hamas authorities in Gaza, released from US immigration detention |
| 2025-05-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] A Georgetown University scholar from India who was arrested in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students is released from immigration detention after a federal judge’s ruling. Badar Khan Suri will go home to his family in Virginia while he awaits the outcome of his petition against the Trump administration for wrongful arrest and detention in violation of the First Amendment and other constitutional rights. He is also facing deportation proceedings in an immigration court in Texas. “Justice delayed is justice denied,” Khan Suri tells reporters after his release from a detention facility in Alvarado, near Dallas. “It took two months, but I’m extremely thankful that finally I’m free.” Khan Suri was arrested by masked, plain-clothed officers on the evening of March 17 outside his apartment complex in Arlington, Virginia. He was then put on a plane to Louisiana and later to a detention center in Texas. Khan Suri’s attorneys say he and his wife, Mapheze Saleh, have been targeted because Saleh’s father worked with the Hamas-backed Gazan government for more than a decade, but before terror group attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The Trump administration has said that it revoked Khan Suri’s visa because of his social media posts and his wife’s connection to Gaza as a Palestinian American. They accused him of supporting Hamas, which the US has designated as a terrorist organization. According to the US government, Khan Suri has undisputed family ties to the terrorist organization, which he “euphemistically refers to as ‘the government of Gaza.’” But the American Civil Liberties Union has said that Khan Suri hardly knew the father, Ahmed Yousef. Is that the Ahmed Yousef described in the Rantburg archives in 2009 as Hamas's chief political adviser, and spelt Ahmed Yusef in 2011 described as Hamas’s deputy foreign minister? With that kind of a connection, it doesn’t matter that they’re not BFFs. Related: Ahmed Yousef 05/19/2016 ISIS shoots down US drone Ahmed Yousef 06/17/2009 WND : 'Obama administration sent message to Hamas' Ahmed Yousef 10/27/2008 Obama's Endorsements Related: Ahmed Yusef 03/21/2025 Georgetown U instructor detained by ICE claims he was 'doxxed and smeared'... as jaw-dropping Hamas link emerges Ahmed Yusef 12/20/2015 Hamas leader meets Turkish president amid talk of Jerusalem-Ankara detente Ahmed Yusef 07/05/2013 Gaza: Hamas 'biggest loser' of Morsi's overthrow |
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