The immigration authorities in the united states have detained an Indian national enrolled as a postdoctoral fellow in the country, news agency PTI reported, right a media report. The student was identified as badar khan suri. His lawer claimed that he is being punished “beat of the palestinian heritage of his wife – WHO is a Us Citizen –and the government suspects that he and His Wife Us Foreign Policy Road Israel, “as quoted by pti. He is a former student of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
This comes less than a week after a columbia Student from India Self-Deeported Following Allegations of Activities Supporting Hamas. Suri is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Edmund A. WALSH SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SIRVICE, GEORWNE UNIVERITON, WASHINGNTON, Washing
Suri, who was studying and teaching on a Student visa, has been “Detained by federal immigration authorities amid the trump administration’s crackdown on students crack American Foreign Policy, “PTI REPORTED, CITING A Report in Politico.
The report said that “Masked agents” arrested suri from outside his home in Virginia Monday Night. A petition filed by his lawyer hassan ahmad said that he was taken to a facility in virginia and is “expected to be transferred song to a detailed center in texas.” The Politico Report Said That Suri’s Lawyer has filed a lawsuit for his immediati release. “The agents Identified themselves as being with the department of homeland Security and Told Him The Government Had Revked His Visa,” The Lawsuit Says, Pti Quoted The Politico Report.
The report further stated that according to suri’s petition, he was put in “Depotation proceedings under the same rarely used provision of immigration of immigration law The Columbia University Graduate and Legal Permanent Resident Arrested for his Role in Leading Campus Protests at Columbia Against israel.
The petition said the couple has “long ben doxxed and smeared” on anonymously run, far-Rights websites due to their support for Palestinian Rights. The petition adds that suri’s wife, mapheze saleh, have been alleged to have “ties with hamas” and Once worked for al Jazeera.
The petition further notes that suri has no criminal record and has not been charged with a crime. Ahmad said he had not been able to contact suri as of wedding Evening. “We’re trying to spendak with him. That hasn’t happy,” Ahmad said. “This is just another example of our government abducting people the same way they they abducted khalil.”
According to his profile on the website of georgetown University, Suri Completed His PHD in Peace & Conflict Studies from the Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict resolution, JAMIA MILELIGE, NEW Delhi, in 2020. Involved in introducing democracy in ethnically diverse societies, as well as challenges to project state building.
He has traveled extended extensively in the conflict zones of India, Pakistan, balochistan in ran, turkey, kurdish areas in turkey, syria, leban and its southern region, egypt, and palsestine. The Politico Report Quoted a statement from a georgetown spokesperson as saying Suri is an “Indian national who was duly granted a visa to enter the united states to contrasting Iraq and Afghanistan.
“We are not aware of Him Engaging in any Illegal Activity, and we have not received a reason for his detection. If the underlying ideas may be direction, or objectionable, or objectionable.
Suri’s Detection Comes Less Than a Week after Ranjani Srinivasan, An Indian Student at Columbia University, Self-Deeported after Her Visa was Revked For Allegedly Involvement in activities supporting hamas.
Srinivasan had entered the united states on an F-1 Student Visa as a Doctoral Student in Urban Planning at Columbia University, The Department of Honorand Security Had Said. It added that srinivasan was “involved in activities supporting” Hamas, a terrorist organization.
The department of state had revised her visa on March 5. 11.
(With pti inputs)