His lawyer said on Wednesday that the federal immigration authorities detained a student student at Georgetown University from India and was studying in Washington, DC, in a student visa.
Lawyer Hassan Ahmed said that the graduate student, Baddar Khan Suri, was arrested by masked agents outside Arlington, Virginia, at his home on Monday evening.
Ahmed said that the agents knew themselves that they were with the Ministry of Internal Security and told him that the government canceled his visa.
The news was first Install Politico.
Ahmed described a Syrian arrest as “beyond contempt” and said that a Syrian did not make any mistake.
Georgetown University said it was not aware of any misconduct by a Syrian.
The Ministry of Internal Security and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to the request, including the reason for a Syrian detention.
Syrian detention comes at a time when the Trump administration is seeking to deport a graduate student at Columbia University Mahmoud KhalilWho participated in protests against Israel and the war in Gaza, using A section of the Immigration Law Regarding the “consequences of foreign policy”.
“The vision of our government is kidnapping and imprisoning another innocent person who exceeds contempt,” said Ahmed, a Syrian lawyer. “If the accomplished researcher, who focuses on resolving conflicts, is the one who decides the government badly for foreign policy, the problem may be with the government, not the researcher.”
Syrian is a post -doctoral colleague at the Alwad Bin Talal Center to understand Christian Muslims at Edmund A. Walking to external service, according to what I mentioned His profile On Georgetown University website.
His autobiography says that he completed a doctorate in peace and conflict studies from the Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islamic Melia in New Delhi in 2020. His thesis on “transitional democracy, divided societies and peace prospects: a study of state building in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Georgetown University said he had not been informed of the reason for the arrest of a Syrian.
The university said: “We are not aware of it that participates in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his arrest. “We expect the legal system to separate this issue fairly.”
A Syrian traveled widely in the conflict areas in India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and the Palestinian regions.
His file in Georgetown says that a “multidisciplinary researcher” is the areas of its interest, which are religion, violence, peace, ethnic conflicts and peace operations in the Middle East and South Asia.
The university says that it is working on a project that examines possible reasons that hinder cooperation between religiously diverse societies and the possibilities of overcoming these obstacles.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio defended attempts to deport Khalil by saying that “no one has the right to visa the student.” Khalil was temporarily banned by the judge.
Last week, American migration and customs enforcement were arrested Leqa KordiaThe officials said that a Palestinian woman participated in protests in Colombia, which exceeded the visa of her student.
A Syrian lawyer submitted a petition for the court of the Federal Court in Virginia, in an effort to determine whether his detention was legal.
