NEW DELHI: After US authorities detained an Indian researcher at Georgetown University for deportation earlier this week in defiance of a court ruling opposing the action, the scholar’s family is urging New Delhi to step in. On a student visa, Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national, is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in Washington.
Agents from the Department of Homeland Security arrested him on Monday outside his northern Virginia home. Suri had “close connections to a known or suspected terrorist who is a senior adviser to Hamas,” was “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media,” and was “deportable” due to his presence in the United States, according to a DHS assistant secretary on X.
The woman Suri is married to is from Gaza, and her father served as a political advisor to the previous prime minister of Palestine.
His father-in-law supports Gaza and the Palestinian cause, and his wife is from Palestine. Shamshad Ali Khan, Suri’s father, told Arab News, “This is the accusation against my son, and for this he has been arrested.”
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