The judge said that the government had offered no evidence that Badar Khan Suri represented a national security threat, and that efforts to deport him violated the First Amendment.

Indian scholar Badar Khan Suri was released from ICE detention after a federal judge cited constitutional concerns. Detained over alleged Hamas ties, Suri denies wrongdoing and plans to fight deportation.

Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri released from detention, fighting Trump administration for wrongful arrest and deportation.

May 14 (UPI) -- U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Indian national and Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri. He had been held by ICE for two months despite not having been charged with a crime.

A US judge ordered the release from custody on Wednesday of an Indian researcher at a top American university who is facing possible deportation for alleged Hamas ties.

A federal judge has ordered that a Georgetown scholar from India be released from immigration detention after he was detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students.