A Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow from India who has been studying and teaching in the U.S. under a student visa has been detained by federal authorities because of alleged connections between his wife and Hamas, the Iranian-backed terrorist group.
The arrest of Badar Khan Suri of Georgetown’s Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding came amid a broader crackdown by the Trump administration on U.S. college and university student and faculty organizers with links to pro-Palestinian activism, Politico reported Wednesday. Khan Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, is a U.S. citizen and Georgetown graduate student with Palestinian heritage.
Khan Suri was arrested Monday night outside his home in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, his attorney, Hassan Ahmad, a Northern Virginia immigration lawyer and advocate, said in a lawsuit fighting for his immediate release, according to Politico. The federal agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told Khan Suri the government had revoked his visa.
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