A researcher at Georgetown University was detained by federal immigration authorities on Monday over allegations he spread Hamas propaganda through social media, according to reports.
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national in the US on a student visa, was arrested at his home in Rosslyn, Virginia, by masked agents from the Department of Homeland Security, his lawyer alleges in a lawsuit, CBS News reported.
Suri, who both teaches and studies at the university as a postdoctoral associate, was told by the DHS agents that his student visa had been revoked, the report stated.
His arrest comes amid the Trump administration’s attempt to deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil for his participation in anti-Israel protests.
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