Washington/New Delhi, March 20 -- An Indian postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University has been detained by US immigration authorities for his alleged anti-Semitic posts on social media and close ties with a known senior advisor to Hamas.
Badar Khan Suri, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, was arrested by masked agents outside his home in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, Politico reported.
His lawyer has filed a lawsuit seeking his immediate release.
The federal agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and told Suri that the government had revoked his visa.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed that Secretary of Sta...