Judge Order of Liberation of Georgetown Scholar arrested by the Trump administration

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the scholar of the University of Georgetown, Dr. Badar Khan Suri, must be released from Texas immigration arrest, saying that it does not represent a threat to the community and that Trump’s administration probably violated his rights of the first amendment when the masked ice The agents snatched him outside his home in Virginia in March.

A lawyer from Suri, born in India, who taught in Georgetown with an academic visa, announced the ruling outside the court of the Virginia court to massive cheers of the crowd.

The Trump administration accused Suri from “actively spreading the propaganda of Hamas and promoting anti -Semitism in social networks” when the application of immigration and customs of the United States arrested him and revoked his visa almost two months ago.

The American District Judge Patricia Giles ruled that Suri can be released whenever she maintains her residence in Virginia and attends other hearings in her case, which she can do virtually.

Suri’s wife, Mapheze Saleh, an American citizen who is Palestinian-American, issued a statement after the ruling that expresses a deep gratitude to Giles for his ruling.

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“Listening to the judge’s words made me cry,” said Saleh. “I would really want to be able to give him a sincere hug of me and my three children, who during every day see his father again. Talking about what is happening in Palestine is not a crime.”

A day before his release, Suri published a story of what happened to the truth, reaffirming that “supports without apologies[s] Palestinians, and their inalienable rights guaranteed by international law. “

Representative Don Beyer (D-VA.), Which attended at least one of Suri’s hearings earlier this month, said the judge’s ruling was a “taste of justice” for his constituent.

“Dr. Khan Suri was attacked because the Trump administration wanted to instill fear in the American campuses responding with unnecessary and illegally and illegally draconian force to students and academics who expressed opinions they don’t like,” Beyer said in a statement. “The treatment of administration to Dr. Badar Khan Suri and the growing list of others as he has been authoritarian and is a serious betrayal of US values. This persecution of dissent must end.”

According to judicial documents, Suri was teaching a course on the rights of minorities in southern Asia before his arrest. Despite his arrest, he has not been accused of any crime.

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The American Union of Civil Liberties, which represented Suri in the Court, said it was moved among five different ICE facilities in three states in just four days before landing in a Texas installation, “where it spent almost two weeks in a room without bed and with a television at full volume of twenty -one hours a day,” the organization said in a statement.

Used underwear was also issued and dressed in a “bright red high -risk uniform reserved for people who supposedly represent the greatest security threats,” said the ACLU.

Suri’s arrest depended on Trump’s administration states that Suri had “nearby connections with a known or presumed terrorist, who is Hamas main advisor,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of National Security, in a statement after his arrest.

Suri’s father -in -law, Ahmed Yousef, served As an advisor to the late leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, but told the New York Times that he had left the role more than a decade ago and that he does not occupy a senior position in the organization. He has publicly criticized the attack of the militant group against Israel on October 7, 2023, calling him a “terrible error.”

This is the third time in days that a federal judge ruled that an academic aimed at Trump must be released from immigration arrest. Last week, a judge ordered the release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Visa head at the University of Tufts, who was arrested for co -authorship of an opinion article in the newspaper of his school. The previous week, a judge ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a head of the Palestinian student visa at Columbia University whom Trump officials described a “terrorist sympathizer.”

Asked for the reaction of the National Security Department to the judge’s decision, McLaughlin repeated the accusations of the administration against Suri.

“Suri is a currency student at the University of Georgetown who received a special privilege to study in the main education institutions of the United States, actively defended violence against the Jewish people on social networks,” he wrote. “And Suri has close connections with a known or suspicious terrorist who is Hamas main advisor. When he advocates violence and terrorism, his privilege of studying in the United States must be revoked.”