Indian Student Detained in US Amid Crackdown

An Indian national enrolled as a postdoctoral fellow in the US has been detained by immigration authorities, said a media report, less than a week after a Columbia student from India self-deported following allegations of activities supporting Hamas.

- Press Trust of India

NEW YORK:

Badar Khan Suria, a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC, was being punished "because of the Palestinian heritage of his wife—who is a US citizen—and because the government suspects that he and his wife oppose US foreign policy toward Israel," his lawyer said. Suri is a former student of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.