{"id":102193,"date":"2025-03-20T03:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=102193"},"modified":"2025-03-20T03:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T03:46:52","slug":"indian-in-us-faces-deportation-for-allegedly-spreading-hamas-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=102193","title":{"rendered":"Indian In US Faces Deportation For Allegedly &#8220;Spreading Hamas Propaganda&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian researcher, studying at Georgetown University in the US, has been arrested by immigration officers and faces deportation, according to his lawyer. Badar Khan Suri, a post-doctoral fellow, was arrested by &#8220;masked agents&#8221; outside his home in Virginia, on Monday night, <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/trump-deportation-georgetown-graduate-student-00239754\" rel=\"nofollow,noindex\" target=\"_blank\">Politico reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told him the government had revoked his visa, the lawsuit says, <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/19\/trump-deportation-georgetown-graduate-student-00239754\" rel=\"nofollow,noindex\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Suri has been accused of &#8220;spreading Hamas propaganda&#8221;. He is said to have &#8220;close connections to a known or suspected terrorist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suri was a foreign exchange <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/gufaculty360.georgetown.edu\/s\/contact\/0031Q00002e7tV9QAI\/badar-khan-suri\" rel=\"nofollow,noindex\" target=\"_blank\">student at Georgetown University<\/a> actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media,&#8221; Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary Department of Homeland Security, wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suri has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas. The Secretary of State issued a determination on March 15, 2025 that Suri&#8217;s activities and presence in the United States rendered him deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(i).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Suri was a foreign exchange student at Georgetown University actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Suri has close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas. The Secretary of State issued a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gU02gLAlX1\">https:\/\/t.co\/gU02gLAlX1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TriciaOhio\/status\/1902524674291966261?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Who Is Badar Khan Suri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Badar Khan Suri is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>He completed his Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 2020. He wrote his thesis on &#8220;Transitional Democracy, Divided Societies and Prospects for Peace: A Study of State Building in Afghanistan and Iraq&#8221; in which he underlined the complexities involved in introducing democracy in ethnically diverse societies; as well as challenges to project state building.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bIndian student Badar Khan Suri has been accused of &#8220;spreading Hamas propaganda&#8221;. He is said to have &#8220;close connections to a known or suspected terrorist&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian researcher, studying at Georgetown University in the US, has been arrested by immigration officers and faces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":102194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY.jpeg",1200,738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY-300x185.jpeg",300,185,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY-768x472.jpeg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY-1024x630.jpeg",640,394,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY.jpeg",1200,738,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY.jpeg",1200,738,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/taiesf6_badar-khan-suri_625x300_20_March_25-O1OlEY-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}