US Judge Blocks Indian Researcher's Deportation Over Alleged Hamas Ties | Read
A US judge ordered Thursday that an Indian researcher at a top American university not be removed from the country, following his arrest and threat of expulsion for alleged Hamas ties.
The detention of Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University in the US capital, came as fears mounted in the academic world that freedom of research and speech is being challenged two months into US President Donald Trump's new term.
Mr Suri's lawyer demanded his release and denounced the arrest as a "targeted, retaliatory detention" that was intended "to silence, or at the very least restrict and chill, his speech" as well as that of others who "express support for Palestinian rights."
